Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 44
when he is high in the heaven. But when he is risingor setting, we see that he passes behind trees or mountains,so that there are intervening objects with which we cancompare him ; then we have actual proof that the sun mustbe a very large body indeed. I give here a picture, by Marcus Codde, taken… … Fig. 10.—A Sunset viewed from Marseilles. (Marcus Codde.) of Notre Dame cle la Garde, but you must choose either the10th of February or the 31st of October for your visit, becauseit is only on the evenings of those clays that the sun sets inthe right position. On both these evenings the sun sinks…
Astronomy
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