The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 149
hose superior luminosity marks the courseof the cracks in all directions from the crater as theircommon centre. So numerous are these bright streakswhen examined by the aid of the telescope, and they giveto this region of the moons surface such increased lumi-nosity, that, when viewed as a whole,… … 124. The Inferior Planets.—The inferior planets are those which lie be-tween the earth andthe sun, and whoseorbits are includedby that of the earth.They are Mercu7yand Venus. 125. Aspects of anInferior Planet. —The four chief aspectsof an inferior planetas seen from theearth are shown in■■s- •*■…
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