The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 402
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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