Over the course of six days, he unveiled the earthshaking revelations that renowned English astronomer John Herschel--who was stargazing in southern Africa at the time--had seen beavers, bison and man-bats on the moon through his revolutionary new telescope.

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John Herschel, son of the discoverer of Uranus and a founder of the Royal Astronomical Society, argued that it would have been a waste of a Universe if God had only created one place where there were people He loved.

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