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There can be an eclipse of the moon when the sun gets into the
moon’s shadow.
Juniper is a very bright star.
Venus, Jupiter and perhaps the earth was known to the ancients.
Mars moves in his orbit at the rate of sixteen seconds a mile.
The earth is 1492 miles in circumference.
The spheres are to each other as the squares of their homologous
sides.
Eclipses are caused whenever the obscuration of a body is passed by
the shadow of some other body.
The planets shine with a steady light but the stars sprinkle.
The stars would cover up the whole heavens if they were all spread
out so astronomers have concluded to arrange them in
constellations.
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