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 183
th, presentingits dark side to the moon, would have no power toheighten the effect by reflection. But even whenthis reflection is greatest, about the time of con-junction, its influence seems extremely feeble.The lucid bounding arc is occasioned by the narrowlunula, which, having recently felt the… … appears to be shed over the obscure portion of themoons disc, while a lucid bow, more bright thanthe rest of the obscure part, seems to join the lunarhorns. When we examine this luminous bow inthe heavens, the lower part of it, at a, is alwaysmuch broader than the upper part, at h; and when the…
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