Wright, Julia McNair, 1840-1903 · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 160
urney Venus is aboveour orbit and in half below it, and thus it usuallyhappens that when our earth catches up with herbrisk neighbor, Venus is above or below the face ofthe sun, as it appears to us. When one transit has liClbite Uenus 143 been made, in eight years there will surely beanother, and… … NOT THIS WAY THIS WAY How large is Venus ? Its diameter is only two hundred and fifty milesless than that of the earth. Venus is less heavythan the earth, being three-quarters of the earthsweight. Venus in not only a beautiful object in the skies,but its transits have afforded us a scale of…
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