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Page 144
If tlieie be any lunar inhabitants on the side toward us, the earth must present to
them all the phases which their world exhibits to us, only in a reverse order.
When we have a new moon, they have a full earth, a bright full-orbed moon
fourteen ...
If tlieie be any lunar inhabitants on the side toward us, the earth must present to
them all the phases which their world exhibits to us, only in a reverse order.
When we have a new moon, they have a full earth, a bright full-orbed moon
fourteen ...
Page 147
To accomplish this journey through her orbit from new moon to new moon, has
required 29£ days — a lunar month. Moon runs high or low. — All hare,
doubtless, noticed that, in the long nights of winter, the full moon is high in the
heavens, ...
To accomplish this journey through her orbit from new moon to new moon, has
required 29£ days — a lunar month. Moon runs high or low. — All hare,
doubtless, noticed that, in the long nights of winter, the full moon is high in the
heavens, ...
Page 150
Lunar Seasons; Day and Night, etc. — As the moon's axis is so nearly
perpendicular to her orbit, she cannot properly be said to have any change of
seasons. During nearly fifteen of our days, the sun pours down its rays
unmitigated by any ...
Lunar Seasons; Day and Night, etc. — As the moon's axis is so nearly
perpendicular to her orbit, she cannot properly be said to have any change of
seasons. During nearly fifteen of our days, the sun pours down its rays
unmitigated by any ...
Page 152
Everywhere the crust is pierced by craters, whose irregular edges and rents
testify to the convulsions our satellite has undergone at some past time.
Mountains. — The heights of more than 1,000 of these lunar mountains have
been measured, ...
Everywhere the crust is pierced by craters, whose irregular edges and rents
testify to the convulsions our satellite has undergone at some past time.
Mountains. — The heights of more than 1,000 of these lunar mountains have
been measured, ...
Page 154
The former names have been retained, and we find on lunar maps the " Sea of
Tranquillity," the " Sea of Nectar," " Sea of Serenity," etc. Bills, luminous bands. —
The latter are long bright streaks, irregular in outline and extent, which radiate in
...
The former names have been retained, and we find on lunar maps the " Sea of
Tranquillity," the " Sea of Nectar," " Sea of Serenity," etc. Bills, luminous bands. —
The latter are long bright streaks, irregular in outline and extent, which radiate in
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy Fourteen weeks courses in natural science |
| Author | Joel Dorman Steele |
| Publisher | A.S. Barnes & Company, 1873 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 14 Oct 2010 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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