A compendium of astronomy; containing the elements of the science, familiarly explained and illustrated, with the latest discoveries. Adapted to the use of schools and academies, and of the general reader (1850)
Olmsted, Denison, 1791-1859 · New York, R. B. Collins · leaf 154
uld suffer no eclipse. But in the course of the sunsapparent revolution around the earth once a year, he issuccessively in every part of the ecliptic ; consequently,the conjunctions and oppositions of the sun and moonmay occur at any part of the ecliptic, and of course atthe two points where the… … she will hide more or less of his disk from us. Since,also, the earths shadow is always directly opposite tothe sun, if the sun is at one of the nodes, the shadow 142 THE MOON. must extend in the direction of the other node, so as tolie directly across the moons path, and if the moon over-takes it…
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