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 90
heights ofsome of our own mountains are, Mont Blanc, 15,775 feet; Mt. McKinley, Alaska, 20,464feet; Mt. Everest in India, 29,000; Mt. Etna in Sicily, 10,865. The mountains of themoon are lofty even as compared with such standards; but it should be borne in mind thatas the moon is a much smaller… … THE MOON AT SIX DAYS Image Inverted, as in Astronomical Telescope; see Key-Mat opposite 76 H Bcainner0 Stav*Book Note, here, that many objects shown when the moon was six days old are nowobscured by the more direct Hghting from the Sun. In our preceding map, Theophilus,CyriUus, and Catharina—30,…
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