Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 108
an ashen light on the dark side of her disk. Somehave tried to account for it as Earth shine, the sameearth-reflected light that makes dimly visible the oldmoon in the new moons arms. But the Earth is toofar away from Venus to permit of any such effect;nor is there any other body that could thus… … THE INNER PLANETS 83 Thus when we reason upon them we see that thepecuHar markings of the planet lose their oddity, be-coming the very pattern and prototype of what weshould expect to view. Interpreted, they present usthe picture of a plight more pitiable even than thatof Mercury. For the nearly…
Cosmogony
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