Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 149
at, as seen from Venus (Fig. 39), theEarth on which we live is a magnificent star, a doubleorb more brilliant even than when viewed from Mer-cury. It is a dazzling orb of first magnitude, accom-panied by its moon, a star of the second and a halfmagnitude. And thus the worlds float on in space,… … Fig. 39.—The Earth viewed from Venus. When we contemplate this radiant Venus, it is diffi-cult, even if v^e can not form any definite idea as to heractual state as regards habitation, to assume that she 130 THE PLANETS must be a dreary desert, and not, on the contrary, to hailin her a celestial…
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