The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 228
able circumstances, it, falls on but about half of the illuminated hemis-phere of the earth Hence, by half the inhabitants on this hemisphere, no eclipsewill be seen. Fig. 144 represents an eclipse of the moon. The instant the moon enters theearths shadow at z, it is deprived of the suns light, and… … When is an eclipse called annular ? Explain by fig. 144 What is a penumbra iWhy are eclipses of the moon visible to more inhabitants than those of the sun i 218 NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. As the moons orbit varies but little from the ecliptic, the moon isnever more than 29G from the equator, and is…
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