A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 338
ike silver,Mercury like zinc or lead. In the proportion of light given out at its different phases, itbehaves like the moon, flashing out strongly near the full, as if it hada surface of the same rough structure as that of our satellite. 559. Telescopic Appearance and Phases. — Seen by the… … Fig. 171. — Phases of Mercury and Venus. the greatest elongation it appears like a half-moon. Between supe-rior conjunction and greatest elongation it is gibbous, while betweeninferior conjunctions and the elongations it shows the crescent phase.Fig. 171 illustrates the phases of both Mercury and…
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