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Lunar astronomer sketch
Lunar astronomer satire
The comic premise of "On the Moon," in which two lunar astronomers misread the calm of a fire-stricken Earth town as contentment -- part of a wider 1880s vogue for popular astronomical fantasy repurposed for social satire.
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- Captions for Drawings §150 ON THE MOON
The lunar-astronomer sketch belongs to a wave of popular astronomical fantasy writing in the Russian press of the 1880s, here turned toward social satire about indifference to a real fire on Earth.
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