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MOONFLOWER 



edge of the moon, photography has done more. 

 Telescopic cameras have taken photographs 

 which can be studied at leisure, reproducing 

 faithfully many things that would escape the 

 human eye even when directed by such power- 

 ful lenses as those in the great observatories of 

 the United States and England. The first pho- 

 tograph of the moon was taken in New York 

 by Draper, in 1840. The photograph was crude, 

 for the science of photography was in its in- 

 fancy. The introduction of modern photo- 

 graphic methods has rendered possible photo- 

 graphs showing the surface of the moon as ac- 

 curately and as much in detail as though it 

 were within one hundred miles of the observer. 

 The finest photographs have been produced at 

 the Lick Observatory in California, the climate 



On Moon 



On Earth 



Do'erfef 



Mountains 



26,691ft. 



COMPARATIVE ELEVATIONS 



being particularly suitable for lunar observa- 

 tions. These photographs are taken by a tele- 

 scopic camera, mounted on the equatorial prin- 

 ciple, following the motion of the moon from 

 rising to setting. 



The "Man in the Moon." To everyone the 

 world over, the "man in the moon" is familiar. 

 In many pictures the moon is to be seen with 

 a broad, smiling face looking down on earth, 

 and it has been so for a very long time, for the 

 story of the man in the moon is very old. The 

 Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all 



had different stories to account for the pres- 

 ence of "the man in the moon." All stories 

 agree, however, in saying that the man was ban- 

 ished to the moon for bad conduct .on earth. 

 The most modern story, although hundreds of 

 years old, is that of the old man who went to 

 a forest to collect wood for his fire. It was 

 Sunday, but still he needed warmth. An angel 

 met him returning with his bundle on his shoul- 

 ders, and asked him if he had forgotten it was 

 Sunday, when all men should rest. The weary 

 old man replied that Sunday and Monday were 

 alike to him, as he had to work every day to 

 feed and warm himself. The angel said as he 

 could not observe Sunday on earth he should 

 observe Moonday in heaven forever. So now 

 the man in the moon is still seen on a clear 

 night, with the fagot of wood on his shoulders. 

 Other Moons than Ours. Although to people 

 on earth the moon is the most important ob- 

 ject in the sky at night, it is in reality almost 

 the most insignificant of all the glories of the 

 heavens; its importance is derived from its 

 nearness, not its size. There are other planets 

 in the solar system which occupy the same re- 

 lation to the sun as that held by the earth, for 

 Jupiter, Mars, Neptune and Uranus have moons. 

 Jupiter has eight satellites or moons, huge bodies 

 with diameters of 2,000 or 3,000 miles. Mars 

 has two, much smaller than those of Jupiter. 

 Saturn has ten moons, the largest being Titan, 

 3,000 or 4,000 miles in diameter, at least twice 

 the size of our moon. Uranus, a planet which 

 is 180,000,000 miles distant from the sun, has 

 four moons, which differ from all other satellites 

 in that they revolve backwards. As the moon 

 revolves round the earth, so in distant space 

 those other moons revolve and rotate round 

 their parent planets, and all continue through- 

 out the ages their tireless journeys around the 

 sun. F.ST.A. 



Consult Serviss's The Moon; Fauth's The Moon 

 in Modern Astronomy; Naysmith and Carpen- 

 ter's The Moon as a Planet, a World and a Satel- 

 lite. 



Related Subjects. The reader is referred to 

 the following articles in these volumes : 

 Apsides Harvest Moon 



Atmosphere Nebular Hypothesis 



Earth Sun 



Eclipse Telescope 



MOON 'FLOWER, a genus of plants belong- 

 ing to the same family as the morning-glory, 

 dodder and sweet potato, known as the Con- 

 volvulus family, embracing about 400 species. 

 The greater number of these are twining or 



