The world machine. The first phase: the cosmic mechanism (1907)
Snyder, Carl, 1869-1946 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 88
ly round. And there was no escaping theevident certainty of this last. More than that, the shadow that falls upon the moon in THE DOCTRINE OF A ROUND EARTH 67 the time of an eclipse required that the sun be larger than theearth ; for if the earth is a globe the shadow it throws will be,if not a… … Fig. 2. If the sun were small and near, as at S, then the shape ofthe earths shadow would be that indicated by the lines S A, S A,and the moon in travelling round the earth would be blottedout for many hours during an eclipse. This is not the case.Often only a part of the moons disk is cut off…
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