Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 253
her cradle, but attached tothe Earth by indissoluble ties of attraction, she rotatesround us in a month, from west to east, and this move-ment keeps her back a little each day in relation to thestars. If we watch, evening by evening, beginning fromthe new moon, we shall observe that she is each… … Fig. 64.—The Full Moon slowly rises,234 THE MOON During her monthly journey she always presentsthe same face to us. One might think that the fear oflosing us had immobilized her globe, and prevented herfrom turning. And so we only know of her the vaguesketch of a human face that has been observed…
Astronomy
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