Suppose an inhabitant of the moon who has not properly considered such analogical reasonings as might induce him to surmise that our earth is inhabited, to give it as his opinion that the use of the earth is to illuminate the moon, when direct daylight cannot be had, etc.

On the Nature and Contraction of the Sun and Fixed Stars, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 85. 1795 (p. 67)