A high-school astronomy: in which the descriptive, physical, and practical are combined .. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York, F. J. Huntingdon [etc.] · leaf 111
is called an oc-cupation. The adjoining cut represents the new moon asjust about to obscure a distant star, by passing be-tween us and it. In 1850, she occulted Jupiter forthree revolutions in succession—viz., Jan. 30th, Feb.27th. and March 26th. Through a telescope, themoon is seen to be… … 225. Though the moons orbit is an ellipse, with res-pect to the earth, it is, in reality, an irregular curve,always concave toward the sun, and crossing theevery 13° nearly earths orbit 19°26:. 1. If the earth stood still in her orbit, themoon would describe just such a path in theecliptic as she…
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