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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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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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Fig. 66.—The Mans head in the Moono not fail to see the masculine profile just described, andeven to imagine the **kiss in the Moon. These vague aspects disappear as soon as the Moonis examined with even the least powerful instruments: ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS the spots are better defined, and the illusions of indistinctvision vanish. Compare this direct photograph of theMoon, taken by the author some years ago (Fig. 69):here is neither a human figure, man, dog, hare, norfaggot; simply deep geographical configurations, and inthe low^er region, a luminous point v^hence certain light

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