Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 20
nt places ofa, 6, c, the observer being at 0.Objects that are nearly in linewith each other, as h, i, 7c, willappear close together in the sky,however great their real dis-tance from each other may be.The moon, for instance, oftenlooks to us very near a star, which is really of course at an… … Fig. 1. § 10] ANGULAR MEASUREMENT. 7 stars are about five feet apart, for instance (and it is not veryuncommon to hear such, an expression), means nothing unlessyou tell how far from the eye the five-foot measure is to beheld. If 20 feet away, it means one thing, and corresponds,nearly, to the…
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