Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Lockyer, Winifred James, Mrs., d. 1879 · New York, C. Scribner & co. · leaf 266
ain,saw in it a very light, celestialEarth ; they stated that its in-habitants must pity the Earthwhich is below them, and whichis only a mass of mud. Others,again, and their singular opinionwas widely spread, added thatthe beings who peopled it werefifteen times larger than those of our Earth, and… … Fig. 48. Aspect of the Full Mo 256 Marvels of the Heavens, that there is only one side of this body which sees lis; so thathalf of the Moon has a moon—namely, our Earth, and the otherhalf is deprived of one. If there are any inhabitants on thehemisphere turned from us, they do not guess that the…
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