The starry skies (Registro nro. 118579)
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| LC control number | 06009993 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QB |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Giberne, Agnes, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1845-1939 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The starry skies |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-02-04 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Alan, The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The starry skies" by Agnes Giberne is a children's astronomy primer written in the late 19th century. Aimed at beginners, it explains the Earth, Moon, Sun, and stars through clear analogies, simple experiments, and short Q&A sections, emphasizing basic ideas like the Earth’s shape, gravity, day and night, lunar phases, and the Sun’s nature.<br/><br/>The opening of the book moves from first principles to sky-watching essentials. It starts by proving the Earth is a sphere using travel-and-spider analogies, the horizon, poles, equator, and hemispheres, then explains gravity (attraction) as the reason people don’t “fall off” on the far side of the globe and frames Earth as a bright world in space. It describes the Sun’s apparent daily path, equinoxes and solstices, the zenith, and the stars’ east‑to‑west drift, before showing that these motions are illusions caused by Earth’s rotation on its axis. Next it introduces the Moon’s size and distance with scale models (Earth a 4‑inch ball, Moon 1‑inch, 10 feet apart), the Moon’s phases and synchronous rotation (one side always facing us), and its fortnight-long day and night. Through the telescope it portrays a stark, airless Moon marked by mountains and vast volcanic craters, extreme temperatures, a black daytime sky, and lower gravity. It then outlines the Sun’s enormous size and distance, why it and the Moon look similar in apparent size, distinguishes reflected light from self-luminous stars, and begins a discussion of sunspots and the Sun’s rotation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: American Tract Society, 1894 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Astronomy -- Juvenile literature |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/starryskiesorfir00gibe">https://archive.org/details/starryskiesorfir00gibe</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77859">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77859</a> |
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