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 68
ince theinvention of wireless telegraphy aboutour signaling to him. That people could live on Marsthere is no doubt, for the Eed Planetis like our Earth, in that it has land,water and air, weather and seasons,with a warm equator and ice-coveredpoles. Seen through a telescope helooks like Fig. 53,… … Fig. 53.—Mars as Seenthrough a telescope. 50 THE BOOK OF THE STARS take him, for he will shine ruddy and bright with never a merry-twinkle. Mars is 141 millions of miles from the sun. His diameter is 4,200 miles. His day is 24% of our hours long. His year is 687 of our days long. Seeing…
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