Show TO BRING THE MOON CLOSE TO US L london adon daily chronicle Chron iok M francois De loncle a french savant and deputy for the basses alpes hat baa a marvelous project in hand which he hopes to see aee completed in time to astonish aaton iab mankind at the paris exhibition of 1900 though the moon la is miles distant from theearta the earth M De loncle thinks he can construct an apparatus which will enable us to examine that luminary at very close quarters the idea has been expounded by the author before a french scientific society and M De loncle says 1 in substance that the only obstacle to a close observation of celestial bodies Is ie the relative imperfection of instruments and that all that is required 2 atred is an ed enlargement argement and improvement of the present instruments laet astronomers says M Da Do loncle have reckoned that the image of the moon can be brought quite close to the earth by means of a crystal mirror eight meters in diameter but which fulch owing to the thickness thio kne required would weigh about eight tons tone he has hae consulted various optician in paris paria and they are prepared pre oared to execute the work before the year 1900 there row tun however the question of the structure which would be required to hold this thia gigantic mirror and upon this abie point M maurice loewy a distinguished french astronomer says that while in principle ii M Dolo De londes noless scheme Is IB pos pon orble there are enormous difficulties in the way of its realizations realization the chief of which so 10 far as aa the exhibition te in concerned in that the apparatus mirt milot be erected on a mountain about two miles in height in order to secure the proper 11 atmospheric conditions it if this thia anti and other are surmounted says M loewy there would be some rome very remarkable results rea for it would be por poi sible ible to clearly distinguish in the move ment about the size of a four tory story house |