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“Hold your hands out to the Sun... What do you feel? Heat, of course. But there’s pressure as well - though you’ve never noticed it, because it’s so tiny. Over the area of your hands, it comes to only about a millionth of an ounce.”
In arctic and southern waters, on the ridges of green waves, among reefs of basalt and pearl, rustle the sails of ships. Swift-winged (ships) are commanded by captains who discover new lands...
N. Gumylev, The Captains
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Beletsky, V.V. (2001). The Full Force of the Sun Blows in the Sails. In: Essays on the Motion of Celestial Bodies. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8360-3_8
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