Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 293
hose familiar to us, as miles, days, etc., yet someof the distances, etc., are so immensely greater than anyknown to our daily experience that we must have recourseto illustrations to obtain any idea of them at all. 272 ASTRONONY. For example, the distance of the sun is said to be about 93… … Fig. 162. -The Apparent Size of the Sun as Viewed fromthe Different Planets. universe. Thus when we say that the distance of the nearest star isover 200,000 times the mean distance of the sun, it becomesnecessary to see if some conception can be obtained of one factor inthis. Of the abstract…
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