A Compendium of astronomy: being a concise description of the most interesting phenomena of the heavens
Historical edition · 1849 · 11,960 words
A historical occult studies text by Carpenter and Westley. This 1849 edition is presented in searchable text, transcribed from a library scan.
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The degree in which the Sun or Moon is eclipsed depends upon the Moon’s proximity to one of her nodes at the time of conjunction or opposition. If the Moon be upon the node at her change, or, in other words, it the centres of the Sun, Moon, and Earth be in the same line, and at the same time the Moon be in that part of her orbit nearest to the Earth, or in perigee , the eclipse will be total in that part of the Earth where the umbra, falls, and partial in those parts covered by the …
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