The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 179
straight line fromthe star to the earth. If the moon have anyrefracting atmosphere, the duration would beshortened, for the rays would be bent towards themoon in passing through it, and, as they wouldpass first on one side of the moon, (that which firstcame in apparent contact with the star,) and… … ;,7-jwwt»je--.;ii n „,*HMH«nyvT*^»-^n: ?,■■•: ?*(»*w»y IFgStagHHfaSBgM WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS 137 between the earth and star, and in the other wouldbegin to arrive at the earth before the whole of themoon had passed from between them. The ob-served duration of the occultation would be lessthan the…
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