Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 143
ould fain petrify our dreams,but thought is not yet stifled to the point of checking all 123 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS aspirations after eternal truth, and when we gaze at thestarry sky it is hard not to ask ourselves the nature ofthose other worlds, and the place occupied by our ownplanet in the vast… … Fig. 37.—Successive phases of Venus. journey round the Sun. Imagine it to be rotating in ayear of 224 days, 16 hours, 49 minutes, 8 seconds at adistance of 108 million kilometers (67,000,000 miles),the Earth being at 149 million (93,000,000 miles). LikeMercury, at certain periods it passes between…
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