 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1841 - 486 pages
...sun and earth are both situated in the plane of the ecliptic, if the moon also revolved around the earth in this plane, we should have a solar eclipse...come directly between the sun and the moon. But the moon is inclined to the ecliptic about five degrees, and the centre of the moon may be all this distance... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1844 - 292 pages
...only then that a solar eclipse can take place. If the moon's orbit lay in the plane of the ecliptic, we should have a solar eclipse at every new moon, and a lunar eclipse at every full moon ; but as the moon's orbit is inclined to the plane of the ecliptic about five degrees, the moon may... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1852 - 312 pages
...only then that a solar eclipse can take place. If the moon's orbit lay in the plane of the ecliptic, we should have a solar eclipse at every new moon, and a lunar eclipse at every full moon ; but as the moon's orbit is inclined to the plane of the ecliptic about five degrees, the moon may... | |
 | Robert Grant - Astronomy - 1852 - 686 pages
...opposition, the earth would be interposed between the sun and moon. Hence a solar eclipse would take place at every new moon, and a lunar eclipse at every full moon. The lunar orbit being, however, inclined at an angle of about 5° to the plane of the ecliptic, an... | |
 | Friedrich Schoedler - Astronomy - 1858 - 728 pages
...eclipse at every conjunction, and at every opposition, (see § 65), i. e,, a solar eclipse would happen at every new moon, and a lunar eclipse at every full moon. But we have seen that the lunar orbit cuts the ecliptic only in two points (Nodes, § 64) ; consequently,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 318 pages
...sun and earth are both situated in the plane of the ecliptic, if the moon also revolved around the earth in this plane, we should have a solar eclipse...ecliptic about 5°, and the center of the moon may be all this distance from the center of the sun, at new moon, and the same distance from the center of... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 484 pages
...sun and earth are both situated in the plane of the ecliptic, if the- moon also revolved around the earth in this plane, we should have a solar eclipse...latter case, the earth would come directly between _the sun and the moon. But the moon is inclined to the ecliptic about five degrees, and the centre... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 318 pages
...sun and earth are both situated in the plane of the ecliptic, if the moon also revolved around the earth in this plane, we should have a solar eclipse...ecliptic about 5°, and the center of the moon may be all this distance from the center of the sun, at new moon, and the same distance from the center of... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 454 pages
...sun and earth are both situated in the plane of the ecliptic, if the moon also revolved around the earth in this plane, we should have a solar eclipse...come directly between the sun and the moon. But the moon is inclined to the ecliptic about five degrees, and the centre of the moon may be all this distance... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1868 - 300 pages
...ECLIP6E8. 183. If the moon moved exactly in the plane of the earth's orbit, a solar eclipse would occur at every new moon, and a lunar eclipse at every full moon ; but as the moon's orbit is inclined to that of the earth, an eclipse can only happen when the moon... | |
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As the sun and earth are both situated in the plane of the ecliptic, if the moon also revolved around the earth in this plane, we should have a solar eclipse at every new moon, and a lunar eclipse at every full... 
