The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 236
circles on CD represent the moon at full. It will beseen, that, if the moon is full at E^ she will just graze the ASTRONOMY. 213 umbra of the earths shadow. In this case she will suffer noeclipse. Were the moon full at any point nearer her node, asat F, she would pass into the umbra of the earths… … Fig. 233, when the moon is within a certain distance from her node, inorder that there may be a lunar eclipse; and this space iscalled the lunar ecliptic limits. The farther the earth is from the sun, the less rapidly doesits shadow taper, and therefore the greater its diameter at thedistance of…
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