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 127
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, … Fig. 120.—Moon Eclipsed by the Earth (Diagram). as shown in Fig. 120; the Moon will then be in the shadow ofthe Earth, and thus it is that the Moon is eclipsed. If the Sun, Earth and Moon were always in a straight line with each other, everytime the Earth passedbetween the Sun andthe Moon the…
Astronomy · Stars
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