Recreations in astronomy : with directions for practical experiments and telescopic work (1879)
Warren, Henry White, 1831-1912 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 174
, but they prove to beillusions. The moon will probably look the same toObservers a thousand years hence as it does to-day.This little orb, that is only -g-y of the mass of the earth,g twenty-eight mountains that are higher than Montlie, that monarch of mountains, in Europe. Edipses. It is evident… … Fig. CI.—BcHpC68; Sh&doW8Of EftTtb and MOOD. behind the earth at every revolution. Such successive ami total darken in gs would greatly derange all affairs ndent on light. It is easily avoided. Venus does 158 A SOLAR SYSTEM not cross the disk of the sun at every revolution, be-cause of the…
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