Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 112
old pin, and in-creases in size as we advance toward it. We traversea few more trillion miles in our rapid course, and itshines out like a fine star of the first magnitude. Itgrows larger and larger. Soon we divine that it isour humble Earth that is shining before us, and gladlyalight upon her. In… … Fig. 28.—Comparative sizes of the Sun and Earth, The Sun, which is manifested to us as a fine whitedisk at noon, while it is fiery red in the evening, at itssetting, is an immense globe, whose colossal dimensions 93 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS surpass those of our terrestrial atom beyond all…
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