A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)
Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 150
hidden, but appears asa ring of light surrounding the dark globe of the moon. This is called an annular eclipse of the sun, and, asmight be expected, this phase occurs more frequently than the total one; they do so, in fact, in the proportionof about three to two. In the case of total eclipses, the… … ECLIPSES. shadow spot, however, travels over the surface of our globe at a considerable velocity, and consequently thetotal phase is not confined to so limited a region, but may be seen at places differing from each other bydistances often amounting to thousands of miles. If the earth had no…
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