Edgar Allan Poe

Lunarian n.	1849 E. A. Poe Mellonta Tauta in Godey’s Lady’s Book Feb. 137/2 [W]atched with much interest the putting up of a huge impost on a couple of lintels in the new temple at Daphnis in the moon. It was amusing to think that creatures so diminutive as the lunarians and bearing so little resemblance to humanity, yet evinced a mechanical ingenuity so much superior to our own. One finds it difficult, too, to conceive the vast masses which these people handle so easily, to be as light as our reason tells us they actually are.
Neptunian adj.	1849 E. A. Poe Mellonta Tauta in Godey’s Lady’s Book Feb. 137/2 April 7.—Continued last night our astronomical amusements. Had a fine view of the five Nepturian [sic] asteroids, and watched with much interest the putting up of a huge impost on a couple of lintels in the new temple at Daphnis in the moon.