Astronomy in a nutshell, the chief facts and principles explained in popular language for the general reader and for schools (1912)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929, Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 188
f the earth, butboth somewhere near the equator. As Venusswings along in its orbit to pass betweenthe earth and the sun, it will manifestly beseen just touching the suns edge soonerfrom A than from B. The observer at Anotes with extreme accuracy the exactmoment when he sees Venus apparentlytouch… … The Great Andromeda Nebula Photographed at the Yerkes Observatory by G. W. Ritchey, with the two-foot reflector.Observe the vast spiral, or elliptic, rings surrounding the central con-densation and the appearance of breaking up and re-shaping into smallermasses which some of the rings present.…
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