The moon has held humankind in its thrall since the earliest civilizations.

Although the ancients had no notion of the gravitational influences the moon exerted on our planet, they did believe that the moon controlled all the water on the earth, and that not only the oceans but also the fluids within their bodies were acted on by the moon. The word ‘lunatic’, from the Latin lunaticus, meaning moonstruck, was used to describe those who seemed to be sent temporarily mad by a full moon and was in use in English from the early fourteenth century. In 1393, William Langland’s allegorical poem Piers Plowman refers to ‘Lunatic lollers and lepers about’, more or less mad according to the moon’s phases…

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