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Excerpt from The Young Astronomer, or the Facts Developed by Modern Astronomy: Collected for the Use of Schools and the General Reader
Distance of the Moon from the Earth; its size; its revolutions; its surface - Volcanoes in the Moon - The Moon's atmosphere - Eclipses of the Moon - Supposed in¿uence of the Moon upon the weather, diseases, &c. - Is the Moon inhabited - The tides -mars, its distance rapidity of its motion - The diurnal and annual revolution of Mars.
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