 | Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 pages
...34, or nearly as 3 to 2, and hence there will be more solar than lunar eclipses, in about that ratio. But more lunar than solar eclipses are seen at any given place, because a lunar eclipse ic risible to a whole hemisphere of the earth at once ; whereas a solar eclipse is visible to a part... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1832 - 412 pages
...those of the moon, and hence there will be more solar than lunar eclipses, nearly as three to two. But more lunar than solar eclipses are seen at any...probability of seeing a lunar than a solar eclipse. CHAPTER XXIX. POLAR BAY AND NIGHT, ETC. THERE being sometimes no night, at other times no day, for... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1845 - 370 pages
...those of the moon, and hence there will be more solar than lunar eclipses, nearly as three to two. But more lunar than solar eclipses are seen at any...probability of seeing a lunar than a solar eclipse. CHAPTER XXIX. POLAR DAY AND NIGHT, ETC. THERE being sometimes no night, at other times no day, for... | |
 | Thomas Keith - 1848 - 486 pages
...a lunar eclipse is visible to a whole hemisphere. Hence, at a given place, and within a given time, there is a greater probability of seeing a lunar than a solar eclipse. THE CYCLE OF ECLIPSES. It has been shown, that after a period of IS'S? the moon recommences precisely... | |
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... and therefore there is a greater probability of seeing a lunar than a solar eclipse. Since the moon is as long above the horizon as below, every spectator may expect to see half the number of lunar eclipses which happen. 
