...to a close.0 • Analyt. Post. I. xxxiii. p. 88, b. 30p. 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 ; fur he saw that it could not bo otherwise....

...: Shape of the Shadow. — An eclipse of the moon occurs when it is in the shadow of the earth; one of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon between it and us. In order to understand them, we must study the shape of the shadow cast by the earth or...

...must happen if the moon is at one of its nodes and full at the same time. 139. Solar Eclipses. — An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the moon between the sun and the observer. As in the case of a lunar eclipse the moon must be nearly in the plane of the...

...which it is total, the beginning and end of totality at different points within this belt, and so on. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the interposition of the dark body of the moon between the earth and the sun. If the plane of the moon's orbit around the earth...

...Pole. For the information of those who are not conversant in astronomy, it may be proper to remark that an eclipse of the Sun is caused by the interposition...when the moon is in conjunction with the sun, or at new moon. On the contrary an eclipse of the Moon is caused by its entering into the earth's shadow,...

...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...