The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . obably reaching the boiling point, whilst through thelong lunar night of a fortnight, the surface freezes inthe icy cold, the temperature of the night side of theMoon falling very low, perhaps to 200° or 250° belowzero. It is evident therefore, as another has suggested,that people not enjoying extremes of temperatureshould shun a lunar residence. The amount of light and heat received from the fullmoon is estimated as not more than one-six-hundred-thousandth of that received from the
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . obably reaching the boiling point, whilst through thelong lunar night of a fortnight, the surface freezes inthe icy cold, the temperature of the night side of theMoon falling very low, perhaps to 200° or 250° belowzero. It is evident therefore, as another has suggested,that people not enjoying extremes of temperatureshould shun a lunar residence. The amount of light and heat received from the fullmoon is estimated as not more than one-six-hundred-thousandth of that received from the Sun. Hence it isapparent that were the sky full of moons, the light re-ceived from it by the Earth would be only about one-eighth part of the Suns light. That the lunar globe isan arid waste, an effete and soundless world, there isevery reason to believe, and, furthermore, there is noth-ing to show that life in the form it exists on earth everhad its being amid that universal ruin. The most con-spicuous services rendered the Earth by the Moon arethe giving of light by night, and the raising of the Yerkes Observatory Plate XXV. The Full Moon; the Moon at Fourteen and One-Half Days (Image erected; as viewed with the naked eye, opera-glass, or field-glass, orwith telescope using terrestrial eyepiece. Some of the larger craters andchief mountain ranges are well shown here. The prominent crater in ^he lowerright-hand quadrant of the illuminated disk is Tycho, and the large craterslightly below and somewhat to the left of the center of the disk is Coper-nicus. Note especially the wonderful system of bright streaks radiating fromTycho, and the complicated system of ridges and streaks radiating fromCopernicus) i The Moon 335 Then, too, as indicated in Scripture, an important func-tion of this silver orb of night is to regulate the calendar,and mark out the times for the days for which specialordinances were imposed. In the words of that noblenature-psalm, for Whitsunday—th
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