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 91
bserve the feeblylighted globe clasped in the brilliant arms of the cres-cent. At a later phase the dark part of the moonentirely ceases to be visible, and this for a doublereason: firstly, the bright side of the earth is then notso fully turned to the moon, and therefore the illumina-tion it… … Fig. 31. — The Changes in theMoon. THE SIZE OF THE MOON. 79 that more light does not always increase the number ofthings that can be seen. It has sometimes the oppositeeffect. Have we not already mentioned how the bright-ness of day makes the stars invisible ? The moon her-self, seen in full…
Astronomy
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