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 43
ide the sun, and, for that matter, everything else also.If the plate were about a hundred feet away, then itwould often hide the sun. If the plate were more thana hundred feet distant, then it could not hide the sun en-tirely, and the further the plate, the smaller it would seem. 30 STAR-LAXD. No… … Fig. 10.—A Sunset viewed from Marseilles {Marcus Codde). jects with which we can compare him; then we haveactual proof that the sun must be a very large bodyindeed. I give here a picture, by Marcus Codde, taken from aFrench journal, VAstronomie, which gives a charming COMPARISONS. 31 illustration…
Astronomy
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