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Astronomy with an opera-glass: (1896)

Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851- [from old catalog] · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 144

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a corresponding scale of grand-eur. Of course, its details are far beyond the reach of theinstrument we are supposed to be using, and yet, even witha field-glass, or a powerful opera-glass, some of its main feat-ures are visible. It is represented in our picture of the half-moon, being the lowest… … Sunrise on Clavius, Tycho, Plato, etc. in its interior have brought them into sight as a point oflight, and at the same time, reaching across the gulf within,have lighted up the higherslopes of the great mountain-wall on the farther or easternside of the crater - valley,making it resemble a…

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