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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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ter-prets in his own fashion. To the author, for instance,the full Moon has the appearance represented in thefollowing figure. The spots resemble two eyes and thesketch of a nose; resulting in a vague human figure,as indicated on the lower disk. Others see a man car-rying a bundle of wood, a hare, a lion, a dog, a kan-garoo, a sickle, two heads embracing, etc.* But gen-erally speaking, there is a tendency to see a humanfigure in it. If this appearance is helped a little by drawing, itgives the profile of a mans head fairly well sketched,and furnished with an abundant crop of hair (Fig. 66). * Fifty-eight different pictures of the aspect of the Moon to the unaidedeye will be found in the Monthly Bulletins of the Astronomical Society ofFrance, for the year 1900, in pursuance of an investigation made by theauthor among the different members of the Society. 235 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS Others go much more into detail, and draw a womanshead that is certainly too definite, Uke this of M. Jean
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Fig. 65.—The Moon viewed with the unaided eye. Sardou (Fig. 67). Others, again, Hke M. Zamboni,see behind the mans profile the likeness of a young girl 236 THE MOON being embraced by him (Fig. 68). There is certainlysome imagination about these. And yet, on the firstsuitable occasion, look at the Moon through an opera-glass, a few days after the first quarter, and you will

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