Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 167
s. WereVenus itself a sunlike body we should, of course, seeno crescent, but only a bright circle of light. In Fig. 50 you will notice an imaginary picture of ayoung astronomer surveying Venus with a telescope. Ihave not, as is obvious, attempted to show the different L54 STAB LAND. objects in… … FlQ, 50.— To show that Wnus shinos by Sunlight. turned towards the sun. A part of this lighted side is,o( course, soon by the telescope which the astronomeris using, and thus the planet seems bo him like a ores-cent of light. THE TRANSIT OV VENUS. We might naturally think from Fig, 46 that Venus…
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