A Lunatic Dreamer

...And I wonder if somebody could be on the Moon looking at our Earth, it should have been that Earth will display the same phases as the Moon shows, and the terrestrial lunar eclipse from the Moon would have been like a very long

Solar Eclipse.

And we should have been able to see on Earth’s disk similar dark and bright patches which we see on the face

of the Moon.

And though it may be impossible one day to visit the Moon,

I wish to dream about this.

Nassireddin Tusi, 13th century Iranian Astronomer and Mathematician, in Zobdat'ol Hay'at,  Manuscript 3320, Malek National Library and Museum, Folio 27-73