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Title: Astronomy for amateurs
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925 Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 73.—Flammarions Lunar Ring. those which our sateUite presents to us, but in theinverse direction. At the moment of New Moon, theSun fully illuminates the terrestrial hemisphere turnedtoward our satellite, and we get Full Earth; at the 253 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS time of Full Moon, on the contrary, the non-illuminatedhemisphere of the Earth is turned toward the satellite,and we get New Earth: when the Moon shows usfirst quarter^ the Earth is in last quarter, and so on.The drawing subjoined gives an idea of these aspects. What a curious sight our globe must be during thislong night of fourteen times twenty-four hours! Inde-
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FiG. 74.—Lunar landscape with the Earth in the sky. pendent of its phases, which bring it from first quarterto full earth for the middle of the night, and from fullearth to last quarter for sunrise, how interested weshould be to see it thus stationary in the sky, andturning on itself in twenty-four hours. Yes, thanks to us, the inhabitants of the lunar hemi-sphere turned toward us are gratified by the sight of a 254 THE MOON splendid nocturnal torch, doubtless less white than ourown despite the clouds with which the terrestrial globe isstudded, and shaded in a tender tone of bluish emerald-green. The royal orb of their long nights, the Earth,gives them moonlight of unparalleled beauty, and wemay say without false modesty that our presence in thelunar sky must produce marvelous and absolutely fairy-like effects. Maybe, they envy us our globe, a dazzling dwelling-place whose splendor radiates through space; they seeits greenish clarity varying with the extent of cloudthat veils its se

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