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Astronomy; the sun and his family (1898)

Wright, Julia McNair, 1840-1903 · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 180

An illustration from Astronomy; the sun and his family, 1898, leaf 180
e to this planethe moon would pass before the sun each month,and cast her shadow upon the earth, so that weshould lie in her shadow and see her dark formagainst the sun, shutting out our light. The moonsorbit is, however, tilted about five degrees from theplane of the ecliptic, and therefore at new…

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