Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 273
Sun 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 contrary, the non-illuminatedhemisphere of the Earth is turned toward the satellite,and we get New Earth: when the Moon shows usfirst… … FiG. 74.—Lunar landscape with the Earth in the sky. pendent of its phases, which bring it from first quarterto full earth for the middle of the night, and from fullearth to last quarter for sunrise, how interested weshould be to see it thus stationary in the sky, andturning on itself in twenty-four…
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