Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 145
y a highly dense and rarefiedatmosphere, which increases the difficulties of observ-ing her surface, might be called the twin sister of theEarth, so similar are the dimensions of the two worlds.But, strange as it may seem to the many admirers, whoare ready to hail in her an abode of joy and… … Fig. 38.—Venus at greatest brilliancy. cloud, so that the weather there must be always foggy.No definite geographical configuration can be discoveredon her, despite the hopes of the eighteenth-century astron-omers. We are not even sure that she rotates upon her-self, so contradictory are the…
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