... around the sun as a center. They have no light of their own, as the stars have, but shine wholly by reflected light received from the sun, which itself is a star. The Ways of the Planets - Page 15by Martha Evans Martin - 1912 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Henry Snyder - Science - 1914 - 508 pages
...the earth and these three bodies, together with four others, planets, and tell us that they revolve around the sun as a center. They have no light of their own as do the true stars, but the light which comes to us from them is a reflection of the light of the sun.... | |
| John Robert Kippax - Constellations - 1914 - 544 pages
...little worlds in fact, differing in this respect from stars, which seem to be only points of light. They have no light of their own, as the stars have, but their measurable disks reflect the sunlight, and their light is far steadier than that of the stars.... | |
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