Elements of theoretical and descriptive astronomy, for the use of colleges and academies (1901)
White, Charles J · New York: J. Wiley & sons · leaf 134
centre of the earth, andMthat of the moon. Withthe distance between E andM as a radius, describe the B Fig. 53. ,jy semi-circumference AMB.■% When the moon is in the\ horizon of the point C, itsdistances from C and fromE are very nearly equal.But as the moon rises, the THE MOONS PHASES. Ill \si:s.… … Fig. 54. sun from the earth is about 387 times the distance of the moonfrom the earth, the lines ES, US, BS, &c, drawn to the sunfrom different points of the moons orbit, may be considered to besensibly parallel. Let us first suppose the moon to be in con-junction with the sun at the point A.…
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