Lunar Lore

From New Moon to the Full, the humidity and moisture
of bodies doth increase; but from the Full

to the New Moon, it descreaseth.

~Ptolemy

…

…It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March,
with a pale moon, lying on her back as though
the wind had tilted her . . .
 – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

…

The weather is generally clearer at the full than at the
other ages of the moon; but in winter the frost then is
sometimes more intense.
  – Francis Bacon, “Historia Ventorum”.
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