ed States on the 29th be, and gives so much light day of the present month. that in the complete absence It will be seen from the an- of the sun only the brighter nexed figure (Fig. 18) that stars are visible. The dark- when the moon comes be- ness is then by no means ab- tween the sun and earth,… … without its touching the Fig. 17 is from a sketch by earth at all, and as her dis- Tacchini, and shows the more tance is variable this in fact extended corona rays as seen sometimes happens. The moon is always so far away (and The shadow having involved us, we look up to the place at the eclipse of…
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