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Identifier: astronomyforamat00flam (find matches)
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
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te and fluttering wings, butwe follow the lustrous orb led on through space by solarattraction. And in the beautiful evenings when she isat her greatest distance from our Sun, the whole worldadmires this white and dazzling Venus reigning as sov-ereign over our twilight * for hours after sunset, and inaddition to the savants who are practically occupied * A few evenings ago, after observing Venus in the calm and silent Heavensat the close of day, my eyes fell upon a drawing sent me by my friend GustaveDore, which is included in the illustrations of his wonderful edition of DantesDivina Commedia. This drawing seems to be in place here, and 1 offer myreaders a poor reproduction of it, taken from the fine engraving in the book.Dante and Virgil, in the peaceful evening, are contemplating lo bel planetachad amar conforta (the beautiful pbnet that mcites to love) 122 THE PLANETS with astronomy, millions of eyes are raised to this celes-tial splendor, and for a moment millions of human beings
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Fig. 36.—The Evening Star. feel some curiosity about the mysteries of the Infinite.The brutalities of daily life would fain petrify our dreams,but thought is not yet stifled to the point of checking all 123 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS aspirations after eternal truth, and when we gaze at thestarry sky it is hard not to ask ourselves the nature ofthose other worlds, and the place occupied by our ownplanet in the vast concert of sidereal harmony. Even through a small telescope, Venus offers re-markable phases. Fig. 37 gives some notion of the succession of these,and of the planets variations in magnitude during its

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  • bookauthor:Welby__Frances_A___Frances_Alice__tr
  • booksubject:Astronomy
  • bookpublisher:New_York__D__Appleton_and_company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:142
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