The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.Nasmyth, James
Science
The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.
Nasmyth, James
Moon
[18]We see this reddening during an eclipse of the moon (when the event
we are describing—an eclipse of the sun visible from the moon—really
takes place). The blood-red colour has often struck observers very
forcibly, and it has indeed been suggested that the appearance may
be the innocent and oft-repeated fulfilment of the prophetic
allusion to the moon being “turned into blood.”
[19]About 100 years ago London was supplied with water chiefly by pumps
worked by tidal mills at London Bridge.
[20]The sun and planets are comparatively useless for this object,
because of their slow movement among the stars; the change of their
positions from hour to hour is so small as to render uncertain the
Greenwich times deducible therefrom. Their use would be comparable
to taking the time from the hour-hand of a clock.
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