Flowers of the Sky
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Flowers of the Sky is a book by Richard A. Proctor. A chapter headed MOONLIGHT says the light of the moon and the changes of the moon were probably the first phenomena which led men to study the motions of the heavenly bodies. The text says the full moon we have in autumn behaves in the southern hemisphere not as with us, but as our spring full moon behaves.
The text gives the moon as a globe about 2159½ miles in diameter, travelling round the earth at a mean distance of 238,818 miles. The text says that two observers, without leaving their window, can tell the size of a distant object.
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- Author
- Richard A. Proctor
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
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- Popular Science
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