 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1820 - 402 էջ
...iu which the earth is placed when the shadow of the moon falls upon it, and consequently, proper]/ speaking, it is only an eclipse of that part of the earth •where the moon's shadow falls. Hence we learn that the sun is not really darkened, but is only for a short spare concealed... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1823 - 666 էջ
...the moon, that to any place of the earth it appears partly or wholly covered, he is said to undergo an eclipse; though, properly speaking, it is only...of that part of the earth where the moon's .shadow cr penumbra falls. When the earth comes between the sun and moon, the moon falls into the earth's shadow;... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1823 - 382 էջ
...situation in which the earth is placed when the shadow of the moon falls upon it, and consequently, properly speaking, it is only an eclipse of that part of the earth where the moon's shadow falls. Hence we learn that the sun is not really darkened, but is only for a short space concealed... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1824 - 332 էջ
...the earth is placed when the shadow of the moon falls upon it, and consequently, properly speak lng, it is only an eclipse of that part of the earth where the moon's shadow falls. Hence we learn that the sun is not really darkened, but is only for a short space concealed... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 էջ
...the earth, lie is said to undergo an eclipse; though, properly speaking, it is only an eclipse ofthat part of the earth where the moon's shadow or penumbra...and having no light of her own, she suffers a real and total eclipse from the interception of the sun's rays. When the sun is eclipsed to us, the moon's... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - 1832 - 276 էջ
...Pisces, south of the equotor.* When the earth comes between the Sun and Moon, the Moon passes through the earth's shadow, and having no light of her own, she suffers a real Eclipse ; the rays of the Sun being intercepted by the earth. This can only happen at the time of full Moon... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1838 - 536 էջ
...situation in which the earth is placed when the shadow of the moon falls upon it, and consequently, properly speaking, it is only an eclipse of that part of the earth where the moon's shadow falls. Hence we learn that the sun is not really darkened, but is only for a short space concealed... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1839 - 928 էջ
...that -PTIC. to any place of the earth the sun appears partly or wholly covered, he is said to undergo an eclipse ; though, properly speaking, it is only...earth where the moon's shadow or penumbra falls." — Ferguson. " The line, which the centre of the earth describes in its annual revolution about the... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - 1845 - 706 էջ
...situation in which the earth is placed when the shadow of the moon falls upon it, and consequently, properly speaking, it is only an eclipse of that part of the earth where the moon's shadow falls. Hence we learn that the sun is not really darkened, hut is only for a short space concealed... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1856 - 952 էջ
...any place of the earth the sun appears partly or wholly covered, he is said to undergo an eclipie ; though, properly speaking, it is only an eclipse of...earth where the moon's shadow or penumbra falls." — Ferguton. " The line, which the centre of the earth describes in its annual revolution about the... | |
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... or entirely, intercepts our view of the sun ; the one is called a total, the other a partial, eclipse. Thus the solar eclipse is nothing more than the situation in which the earth is placed when the shadow of the moon falls upon it, and consequently,... 