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 126
that isneeded to show how this isdone is a lighted lamp on atable and an apple with aknitting needle through itscenter. Let the flame ofthe lamp represent the Sun,your head the Earth andthe apple the Moon. Hold the apple by the knitting needle in a line between youreyes and the flame and turn round… … Fig. 119.—Eclipse of the Moon by * the Earth (Experiment). 108 THE BOOK OF THE STARS This is just what happens when the Earth gets between theSun and the Moon and all these bodies are in a straight line,
Astronomy · Stars
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