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Page 16
... miles an hour , according to the time of day and the lat- itude at which the eclipse is seen . It is dark during a total eclipse , of course , but ordinarily not so dark as night , even a moonlit night . The corona and chromosphere give ...
... miles an hour , according to the time of day and the lat- itude at which the eclipse is seen . It is dark during a total eclipse , of course , but ordinarily not so dark as night , even a moonlit night . The corona and chromosphere give ...
Page 20
... miles away , still , what we know is infinitely lit- tle compared with what there is to know and what we want to find out . Such ex- peditions as this , if successful , are better calculated to answer a few of our ques- tions than years ...
... miles away , still , what we know is infinitely lit- tle compared with what there is to know and what we want to find out . Such ex- peditions as this , if successful , are better calculated to answer a few of our ques- tions than years ...
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... miles . Straight upward we soared ; and within an hour , during which we felt not the least discomfort , we had risen so high that the earth was now a broad ex- panse beneath us , blue in color and show- ing no convolutions whatever ...
... miles . Straight upward we soared ; and within an hour , during which we felt not the least discomfort , we had risen so high that the earth was now a broad ex- panse beneath us , blue in color and show- ing no convolutions whatever ...
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... miles distant , while beneath us was what certainly was an- other earth . Immediately beneath us now was a perfectly circular disc of variegated col- ors , surrounded by an ocean of bright blue , with here and there a feathery cloud ...
... miles distant , while beneath us was what certainly was an- other earth . Immediately beneath us now was a perfectly circular disc of variegated col- ors , surrounded by an ocean of bright blue , with here and there a feathery cloud ...
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... miles of the earth , while the very nearest object that has ever attracted the tele- scopes of our astronomers is the moon , distant a quarter of a million miles . Can you not understand that no astronomer would ever train his ...
... miles of the earth , while the very nearest object that has ever attracted the tele- scopes of our astronomers is the moon , distant a quarter of a million miles . Can you not understand that no astronomer would ever train his ...
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