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Then said Michel in a merry tone why are therebook74 eclipses when there ought not to be any Simply because the solar rays are weakened by this refraction and the atmosphere through which they pass extinguished the greater part of them That reason satisfies me replied Michel. Thus let be the horizontal parallel and p the apparent semidiameter Oh said Michel. The myriameter is equal to rather more than cubic yards English. It is known now that heat is only a modification of motion. But that idea does not spring from Michel answered Nicholl. And Michel rising went to look at the lunar disc which shone with intolerable brilliancy. Now when they observed the earth through the lower window it looked like nothing more than a dark spot drowned in the solar rays. More than that replied Barbicane we should have been burned to death. Above the orb of night was nearing the line followed by the projectile so as to meet it at the given hour. Never mind I wish I was there Ah my dear comrades it will be rather curious to have the earth for our moon to see it rise on the horizon to recognize the shape of its continents and to say to oneself There is America there is Europe then to follow it when it is about to lose itself in the suns rays By the bye Barbicane have the Selenites eclipses Yes eclipses of the sun replied Barbicane when the centers of the three orbs are on a line the earth being in the middle.

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