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The children's book of stars (1908)

Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith) · London A. and C. Black · leaf 140

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some.We cannot prove it in just the same way, becausewe are all inside the atmosphere ourselves, andthere is no possibility of thrusting a stick into itfrom the outside I The only way we know it is bylooking at something which is outside already, andwe find plenty of objects in the sky. As a… … SHINING VISITORS 115 is most noticeable in the case of the sun when he isgoing down, for the atmosphere bends his rays up,and though we see him a great glowing red ballon the horizon, and watch him, as we think, dropgradually out of sight, we are really looking athim for the last moment or two when…

Astronomy -- Juvenile literature

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