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 164
e better than yours thought they were seas. Thenthere are huge cracks or gorges on the surface of the Moon,which start from some of the craters and run for hundreds of THE SPYGLASS OR TELESCOPE 145 miles in every direction. A number of these gorges start from avolcano named Tycho (pronounced Ti-co)… … Fig. 158.—Full View of Moon. a good telescopic view of the Moon, shows some of these greatcracks radiating from Tycho. To show on a small scale how the Moon cracked on coolingdown Nysmith filled a glass globe with cold water and thensealing the globe he plunged it into hot water. The slow…
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