The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts (1915)
Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 112
again becomes gibbous; then reaches its last quarterlater only a crescent can be seen, and she finally disappears. At other times when the crescent is bright the whole darkdisk of the Moon can be seen glowing dimly with a reddish,copper color, and this is called the old Moon in the new Moonsarms.… … 94 THE BOOK OF THE STARS spot which is marked Grimaldi on the maps of the Moon. Gri-maldi is a great plain, having nearly 14,000 square miles in it,with mountains flanking it on the sides. This is another goodeyesight test, for it takes a mighty sharp eye to see it withouta glass. These and a dozen…
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