To the moon and back in ninety days : a thrilling narrative of blended science and adventure (1922)
Brown, John Young, 1858-1921, Lunar Publishing Company. pbl · Providence, Kentucky : Lunar Publishing Company · leaf 189
were as distinct to ourvision as those very near us. And because there is not,on the moons surface, any aerial perspective, we werenot able at first to form very true conceptions of theremoteness of objects. The sunlight spread over all the landscape gave us abroad scope in all directions and… … FIG. 35 (Paris Observatory.) FIG. 35. PART OF THE SHORE OF THE MARE IMBRIUM. The dark, smooth area occupying the right in the picture is theMare Imbrium. The large vulcanoid with a dark floor, nearthe lower margin is Plato. The white, solitary peak a half-inchdirectly above Plato is Pico. Upward to…
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