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I was reading American Cookery (1798) when I came across a strange passage around keeping fish, warning the reader that it will not become spoiled "if kept from heat and the moon, which had much more injurious effect than the sun." Did people at the time believe the moons light to be harmful?

by /u/critfist in /r/AskHistorians

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