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David Warmflash

David Warmflash is an astrobiologist, science communicator and author of Moon: An Illustrated History: From Ancient Myths to the Colonies of Tomorrow.

Anaxagoras, who lived in the fifth century B.C., was one of the first people in recorded history to recognize that the moon was a rocky, mountainous body.

An Ancient Greek Philosopher Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock, Not a God

2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, allowing him to explain lunar phases and eclipses