According to this Hypothesis [that there is a sphere of fire under the concave of the moon], the whole Lunar world is a Torrid Zone; and on a better account, then Aristotle thought ours was, may be supposed inhabitable, except they are Salamanders which dwell in those fiery Regions.

Scepsis Scientfica, Chapter XX (p. 151), Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1885