Popular astronomy : a concise elementary treatise on the sun, planets, satellites and comets (1865)
Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862 · New York : Oakley & Mason · leaf 64
PHASES OF VENUS … VENUS. 59 ble in emerging from the suns beams, she is first seenby the telescope as a slender and delicate crescent ofsilver light. As she recedes from the sun this phasegradually changes; more and more of her illuminatedhemisphere becomes visible, until, finally, at her superiorconjunction, her…
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