Good practical book, occasionally funny. Simple diagrams and generally clear text. But Figure 9 and its explanation in Chapter 5 were quite beyond me. I suspect that there is an error there.

This book was published in this century, but, probably because the author was quite elderly, has a nice old-fashioned approach. It is not aggressively dumbed down or full of random pop-culture references. It is really rather informative.

Chapter 1: A brief biographical sketch and mention of Apollo 11. From space travel being ridiculous, to a landing on the moon. From confidence in near future moon bases to today, when humans go no farther than the ISS.

Chapter 2: Myth, Greek speculations, and Greek math and science, including Eratosthenes and Ptolemy.

Chapter 3: A survey of the solar system. This book was published when Pluto was a planet and it had only one moon.

Chapter 4: Conflicting theories of the moon's origins, the big impact one wins.

Chapter 5: The Movement of the Moon. The moons phases, lunation, change in apparent size, eclipses, libration.

Chapter 6: The Moon and the Earth. Tides, tidally locking, size of moon's orbit increasing, earth's rotational velocity decreasing.

Chapter 7: Observers of the Moon. William Gilbert, Thomas Harriot, Galileo (less interested in charting the moon and more interested in supporting his theories with his lunar observations), later work, photography, lunar orbits.