Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 114
rge as a plate with the unaided eye, and now we hear it only Looks as big as an orange in the telesoope,Hut where is the plate with which vou compare yourmoon supposed to be held? It is surely not in your hand. It is imagined to be up in the sky, a very Long THE USE OF THE TELESCOPE. 101 way off.… … Fig. 39. — The Advantage of using a Telescope. I sometimes find that people will not believe howmuch the telescope that they are using is magnifyingthe moon until they use both eyes together, of whichone is applied to the telescope, while the other isdirected to the moon. It will then be seen, even…
Astronomy
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