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100 1 _aGiberne, Agnes,
_d1845-1939
245 1 4 _aThe starry skies
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-04
508 _aAlan, The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"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. 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 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: American Tract Society, 1894
653 _aAstronomy -- Juvenile literature
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/starryskiesorfir00gibe
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77859
999 _c118579
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