Johnson, Gaylord · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 153
us the way we do thecrescent and full moon.^ Just because Venus is too far away from ourunaided eyes. When you go to the theatre, and sit 138 THE SKY MOVIES away back in the top balcony, you can see the faceof an actor, but you need an opera glass to see theexpression on his face. Just so you need… … Is the full-Venus smaller because she is sofar away then, on the other side of her path aroundOld Sol.^ asked Peter. Thats it, answered Uncle Henry, Venus is134 million miles farther away from the earth whenshe is full than when her face looks like a littlecrescent moon. Id like to know, said Paul,…
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