
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt:... O O OO imwni O Hume, -um cArimiA 0 n""'zL0 Mare (c)GA5SEND 14-" N t s ' Mare eccYaRrl.'.Us O ""P"'"sus N u b i u m H; vzIE'.mu5 Atsnzaniusg O q1MALg,3' O O T"EP"""u3 NIPPARCNUS PTOLEM FLA"sl'-"O 3 LANGRENUS Onsnscuzv. g Mare 0 O Oceanus 0 'Z:. g ' MASKELVNE rmssnecxzn O O; Foecunditatis Mm 0 0 0.5;l-.KEP'-EH 5 Tranqullitatis s"'u!O-I cPERNcentsU5 Procellarum, PRocLus O ERATOSTHENES @ O 0 O O 'Nit? ONERODOTU-I Q 0 M a re '84)' AnusrAncrus O. ARCNIMEDES Q 0 SerenitailS O O 0 M a re QGEMINU' ARISTILLUBQ ' O O Imb rl u m zunoxus E "P5 O 1" O ATLAs sQu: ncui.ssO Oww Nonrn PoLF-Key to the Chart of the Moon Opposite oceans, which have dried up and disappeared hundreds of thousands of years ago. They are not all at the same level. Earlier stages of cosmic life are characterized by intense heat; but as development of the moon progressed, original heat gradually radiated into space, leaving her surface finished. Evidently she has gone through experi ences some of which the earth may already have known, and through others still in our remote future. Matterhorn. the moon in 1647. Being so much smaller than the earth, as well as less in mass, our satellite cooled much faster than the parent planet. A few surface features are to be explained as due to the consequent shrinkage. Maps and Photographs of the Moon.--All the lunar mountains, plains, and craters are mapped and named; and astronomers are quite as familiar with 'Copernicus' and 'Eratosthenes' (a great crater, and a mountain nearly 16,000 feet high) as geographers are with Vesuvius and the Hevelius of Danzig made the first
Page Count:
144
Publication Date:
2013-09-01
ISBN-10:
123008584X
ISBN-13:
9781230085845
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