Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 310
th of its disk away from us.But it is a little less, since we have more than half adegree (3i0j ^^i^ the geometric ratio tells us that thedistance of our satellite is no times its diameter. Hence we have very simply obtained a first idea ofthe distance of the Moon by the measure of its diameter.… … Fig. 8i.—Division of the Circumference into 360 degrees. distance in miles, we need to know the width in miles of the lunar disk. This problem has been solved, as follows: Two observers go as far as possible from each other, and observe the Moon simultaneously, from two stations situated on the…
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