A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 342
e as well as the crescent, it was a strongargument for Copernicus. Galileo announced his discovery in a curiousway, by publishing the anagram, — Haec immatura a me jam frustra leguntur ; o. y. Some months later he furnished the translation, — Cynthia? figuras semulat mater amorum, which is formed… … Fig. 172. — Telescopic Appearances of Venus. Fig. 172 represents the disc ot the planet as seen at four points in itsorbit. 1, 3, and 5 are taken at superior conjunction, greatest elongation,and near inferior conjunction respectively, while 2 and 4 are at interme-diate points. 568. Maximum…
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