 | Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 pages
...minutes, when the moon passes near the extremity of the shadow. SECTION II. — On eclipses of the Sun. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the body of the moon between the sun and the earth, when she throws a shadow over a certaia portion of... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1847 - 456 pages
...correctly described the earth as a globe, self-balanced in infinite space; and taught that eclipses are caused by the interposition of the moon between the earth and sun, or the earth between the sun and moon, as these revolve around the earth; — a theory approximating... | |
 | Berquin (M., Arnaud) - 1854 - 590 pages
...in its revolution round the earth ; and the same time exactly to perform her revolution on her axis. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon, between the sun and the earth. An eclipse of the moon takes place when the earth is between the sun and the moon.... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1854 - 360 pages
...few minutes, when the moon passes near the extremity of the shadow. SEC. II. ON ECLIPSES OF THE SUN. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the body of the moon between the sun and the earth, when she throws a shadow over a certain portion of... | |
 | James Austin Bastow - 1859 - 772 pages
...mind ; and that deliverance from it is the greatest of all good, as well as the highest duty. ECLIPSE. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the new moon between the earth and the sun, thus intercepting the sun's light from the earth either totally... | |
 | 1861 - 312 pages
...the full moon, the conjunction of the Earth's shadow and the Moon must happen at the same time ; and an Eclipse of the Sun is caused by the interposition of the Moon between the Earth and the Sun, and the conjunction of the Sun and Moon in like manner must happen at the new moon, as then... | |
 | William Thomas READ - 1862 - 144 pages
...are total when the whole of the eclipsed body is covered, and partial when only a part is covered. 7. An eclipse of the Sun is caused by the interposition of the Moon between the Earth and that body. 8. If the eclipse be total, then the apex or point of the shadow must fall behind the Earth,... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1870 - 274 pages
...rigorously true. CHAPTER IX. ECLIPSES OF THE MOON. — ECLIPSES OF THE SUN. 213. Cause of Eclipses. — An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon between the sun and the earth. It can therefore only occur when the moon is in conjunction with the sun — that... | |
 | George Grote - 1872 - 522 pages
...to a close.0 " Analyt. Post. I. xxxiii. p. 88, b. 30-p. 89, a. 10. " Ibid. p. 89, a. 11-b. 6. That eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon was to the astronomer Hipparchus scientific Cognition ; for he saw that it coiiU not be otherwise.... | |
 | George Grote - 1872 - 508 pages
...that it cotild 30-p. 89, a. 10. not be otherwise. To the philosopher Ibid. p. 89, a. 11-b. 6. Thai eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon was to the astronomer Hipparchus scientilic Kpikurus it was Opinion ; for he thought that it might... | |
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An eclipse is a partial, or total privation of the light of the sun or moon. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun, and consequently must happen when the inoon is in conjunction with the sun, or... 
