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Astronomy for amateurs (1904)

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 272

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(which is fairly ex-tensive), lest the Budget Commission, at the end of its resources, should betempted to put on an unexpected tax. This ring, which the astronomerspresented to me in the year 1887, is almost in the center of the lunar disk, tothe north of Ptolemy and Herschel. 252 THE MOON… … Fig. 73.—Flammarions Lunar Ring. those which our sateUite presents to us, but in theinverse direction. At the moment of New Moon, theSun fully illuminates the terrestrial hemisphere turnedtoward our satellite, and we get Full Earth; at the 253 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS time of Full Moon, on the…

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