The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 239
Fig. 236. 209. When there wi// be ati Eclipse of the Sun.—There will be an eclipse of the sun whenever any portionof the moons shadow is thrown on the earth. It will beseen from Fig. 235 that this can occur only when the moon … Fig. 237. is in conjunction, or at new. It does not occur everymonth, because, owing to the inclination of the moons orbitto the ecliptic, the moons shadow is usually thrown eitherabove or below the earth at the time of new moon. There ASTRONOMY. 217 can be an eclipse of the sun only when new moon…
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