A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 84
t shines by reflected light alone. This reflectedlight is chiefly that of the Sun. Here in our small illustration, the brighter light comestherefore from the Sun, and, striking the globe of the moon from the west, makes the bril-liant crescent shape called the new moon. This, from our viewpoint, is… … 70 a Bctjinners Star^iCooh upon this side, we may see the increase of the lunar day as the Suns rays Hght up more andmore of the moons surface. In the illustration on p. 73 we may see the advance of the Suna.t 2 days; on p. 75 the Suns advance at 6 days; on p. ]•] at 9^4 days; on this page at…
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