Kippax, John Robert, 1849- [from old catalog] · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 402
brighter than Venus, and the Moon brighter thanJupiter. Furthermore, did lunarian inhabitants exist,the Earth would appear to them as a resplendent globe,from thirteen to fourteen times as large as the Moonappears to people on the Earth. The mean or average distance of the Moon from theEarth is… … Paris Observatory Plate XXIV. The Moon at Nine Days (Image inverted as in astronomical telescopes) The Moon 333 or rather more than one-quarter that of the Earth. Itsapparent diameter is about half a degree, or nearly thesame as that of the Sun, although it varies somewhat,owing to the influence of…
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