Posted on 24/02/07
The woman in the moon
The New Moon's ArmsBy Nalo HopkinsonWarner Books, 323 pages, $29.99Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci commented on the curious and beautiful phenomenon of "Earthshine," also known as "the old Moon in the new Moon's arms." In the Codex Leicester, he wrote: "Some have believed that the moon has some light of its own, but this opinion is false, for they have based it upon that glimmer visible in the middle between the horns of the new moon . . . this brightness at such a time being derived from our ocean and the other inland seas . . ."
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