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The earth and sky; a primer of astronomy for young readers (1898)

Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, D. Appleton & Company · leaf 71

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nt red. Just now I said that the sun was an ex-ceedingly large globe. Scientific men knowjust how large it is. Sometime I will tell youhow they know, but you must take my wordfor it nowx. It is so large that if you couldlay one hundred globes as big as the earthacross the sun they would not reach… … This picture shows one hundred and nine little black dots laidacross the white circle. If each of these little black dotswere as big as the whole earth, the white circle would be justthe size of the sun. could be taken and put just in front of thesun it would be no larger than a single one of 44…

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