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 54
which the brilliancyis chiefly derived is a remarkable fringe of delicate andbeautiful objects which are self-luminous no doubt, butwith a light so feeble that when presented to us amidthe full blaze of sunlight they are invisible. When,however, the moon so kindly stops all the strongerbeams, then…
Astronomy
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