Electro astronomical atlas ... with explanatory notes, questions and answers (1874)
Spoor, J. W. (Joseph W.) · Albany, N.Y., Weed, Parsons and Company · leaf 83
of the Moon is not large enough toentirely cover that of the Sun, and leaves a lumi-nous ring visibleround its own body. As the Moon ismuch smaller thanthe Sun, it will beunderstood that it isits small relativedistance which causesits disc to appear ofequal and even great- annular eclipse of the… … a total Eclipse of the Sun. Here the dark shadowof the Moon falls on the Earth and obscures theentire body of the Earth. Again, if the Cone of the Moons shadow doesnot reach the earth, there will be annular eclipsesvisible in those parts comprised in the prolonga-tion of the Cone ; a partial…
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