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If the earth did not have the light-disturbing and opacifying atmosphere, and if the sun were only a luminous point, the edge of the shadow of the earth, as it travels on the moon, would appear to us to be a sharply delimited near-circular line.
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Schmidt, J.F.J. (2020). Apparitions During a Lunar Eclipse. In: The Moon. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37269-9_11
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