The Adolfo Stahl lectures in astronomy, delivered in San Francisco, California, in 1916-17 and 1917-18, under the auspices of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Aitken, Robert Grant, 1864-1951 · San Francisco Stanford University Press · leaf 134
after sunrise, a slender crescent.As the crescent grows from day to day, the time of risingbecomes later and later until, when the crescent has roundedthrough the half-moon and gibbous phases to full moon,it rises in the east about the time the Sun is setting in the west.As it wanes again, first to… … Fig. 7. The Phases of the Moon. Of course this retardation in the time of its rising is due tothe fact that the Moon is really moving about the Earth fromwest to east. Watch it for a few hours on any clear moonlightevening and you will find that in an hours time it moves east-ward among the stars…
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