The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 243
0. Fig. 242 shows the track of the total eclipse of 1871across India and the adjacent seas. In a partial ecHpse of the sun, more or less of one sideof the suns disk is usually concealed, as shown in Fig. 243.Occasionally, however, the centre of the suns disk is cov-ered, leaving a bright ring… … Fig. 242. only to observers who are in the central portion of thepenumbra. 212. Comparatwe Frequency of So/ar and LunarEclipses.—There are more eclipses of the sun in the year ASTRONOMY. 221 than of the moon ; and yet, at any one place, eclipses ofthe moon are more frequent than those of the sun.…
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