Wright, Julia McNair, 1840-1903 · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 136
largeas the disc of the sun, it is really the smallest visibleobject in the skies. Its nearness makes it seem large.It would take fifty moons to make a globe of thesize of this world, and fifty million moons to makea sun. As to weight, the material of the moon islighter than that of our earth, and… … A NEAR VIEW Gbe Bartba Daughter 123 in twenty-seven days also! The suns rotation onits axis is accounted slow, taking twenty-five days^but the moon demands about twenty-seven days anda quarter for one revolution. In consequence of the rotation of the moon beingmade in the same time as its orbital…
Astronomy
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