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The call of the stars; (1919)

Kippax, John Robert, 1849- [from old catalog] · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 406

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e it isapparent that were the sky full of moons, the light re-ceived from it by the Earth would be only about one-eighth part of the Suns light. That the lunar globe isan arid waste, an effete and soundless world, there isevery reason to believe, and, furthermore, there is noth-ing to show that… … Yerkes Observatory Plate XXV. The Full Moon; the Moon at Fourteen and One-Half Days (Image erected; as viewed with the naked eye, opera-glass, or field-glass, orwith telescope using terrestrial eyepiece. Some of the larger craters andchief mountain ranges are well shown here. The prominent crater…

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