For, as the reflecting reader need hardly be reminded, since she rotates with perfect regularity on her axis, she can make such rotations visible to the Selenites by bringing some particular point on her surface once every twenty-four hours directly over the same lunar meridian.
Towards the Moon, the view though far less distinct, was still almost as dazzling as ever.

The radiant Queen of Night still glittered in all her splendor in the midst of the starry host, whose pure white light seemed to borrow only additional purity and silvery whiteness from the gorgeous contrast.

On her disc, the "seas" were already beginning to assume the ashy tint so well known to us on Earth, but the rest of her surface sparkled with all its former radiation, _Tycho_ glowing like a sun in the midst of the general resplendescence.
Barbican attempted in vain to obtain even a tolerable approximation of the velocity at which the Projectile was now moving.

He had to content himself with the knowledge that it was diminishing at a uniform rate--of which indeed a little reflection on a well known law of Dynamics readily convinced him.

He had not much difficulty even in explaining the matter to his friends.
"Once admitting," said he, "the Projectile to describe an orbit round the Moon, that orbit must of necessity be an ellipse.