The Peoples and Politics of the Far East (Henry Norman, 1895)
"Besides its age it enjoys the reputation of being the only work of human hands on the globe visible from the moon"
The idea of visibility from Mars was probably the original - there were a lot of somewhat weird attempts around this time to figure out if the Martians could see secular changes on Earth like the changes we saw on Mars, debates about signalling them with triangles of forest and so on. All very odd.
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Date: 2007-02-09 02:18 pm (UTC)"Besides its age it enjoys the reputation of being the only work of human hands on the globe visible from the moon"
The idea of visibility from Mars was probably the original - there were a lot of somewhat weird attempts around this time to figure out if the Martians could see secular changes on Earth like the changes we saw on Mars, debates about signalling them with triangles of forest and so on. All very odd.