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The elements of astronomy; a textbook (1919)

Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 124

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oroughly satisfactory explanation hasever been given, though they have been ascribed to a staining ofthe surface by vapors ascending from rifts too narrow to be visible. The most remarkable of these ray systems is the one connectedwith the great crater Tycho, not very far from the moons southpole.… … . — Archimedes and the Apennines (Nasmyth). § 170] LUNAR MAPS. Ill 170. Lunar Maps. — A number of maps of the moon have beenconstructed by different observers. The most recent and extensive isthat by Schmidt of Athens, on a scale 7 feet in diameter: it waspublished by the Prussian government in…

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