 | George Gregory - Astronomy - 1808 - 452 pages
...better acquainted than astronomers till of late ; and they gratefully acpose there were any, would have but one day and one night in the course of a month. knowledged the goodness of God, in giving them an immediate supply of moonlight after the setting... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1813 - 448 pages
...always presents the same side, or face, towards the earth, and hence it is evident that she turns on ner axis but once, while she is performing one revolution...enlightened by the sun, a strong light is reflected 10 her from the earth, during the sun's absence. The other half of the moon enjoys alternately two... | |
 | George Gregory - Science - 1820 - 458 pages
...there is a remarkable dif* The inhabitants of the moon, therefore, if we suppose there are any, would have but one day and one night in the course of a month. 318 Astronomy. ' [Lecture 20. ference, especially in the time of harvest, with which farmers... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...same face to us, by which it is evident that she turns but once upon her axis, while she performs a revolution round the earth; so that the inhabitants...day and one night in the course Of a lunar month. Caroline. We afford them however the advantage of a magnificent moon to enlighten their long nights.... | |
 | Jacob Green - Constellations - 1871 - 240 pages
...but once round her axis during every periodical revolution round the earth ; so that her inhabitants have but one day and one night in the course of a month. This motion of the Moon on her axis is uniform; but she has another motion which carries her... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...same face to us, \)y which it is evident that she turns but once upon her axis, while she performs a revolution round the earth; so that the inhabitants...day, and one night, in the course of a lunar month. • Caroline. We afford them, however, the advantage of a magnificent moon to enlighten their long... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Physics - 1830 - 308 pages
...the sun, than it does to make her monthly revolution round the earth ; and this 2 days, 5 hours and I minute being added to 27 days 7 hours and 43 minutes,...One half of the moon is never in the dark, because wheu this half is not enlightened by the sun, a strong light is reflected to her from the earth, during... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 640 pages
...same face to us, by which it is evident that she turns but once upon her axis while she performs a revolution round the earth ; so that the inhabitants...day and one night in the course of a lunar month. Since we always see the same hemisphere of the moon, the inhabitants of that hemisphere alone can perceive... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...by which it is evident lhat she turns but once upon her axis while she performs a revolution ruiind the earth ; so that the inhabitants of the moon have...day and one night in the course of a lunar month. Since we always see the same hemisphere of the moon, the. inhabitants of that hemisphere alone can... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...same face to us, by which it is evident that she turns but once upon her axis, while she performs a revolution round the earth ; so that the inhabitants...day and one night in the course of a lunar month. Since we always see the same hemisphere of the moon, the inhabitants of that hemisphere alone can see... | |
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The moon always presents the same face to us, by which it is evident that she turns but once upon her axis, while she performs a revolution round the earth ; so that the inhabitants of the moon have but one day and one night in the course of a lunar month.... 
