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 176
ible. What we think to be Marsvagaries are often to be explained by the fact, that weourselves on the earth are rapidly shifting about, and altering our point of view. WHY MARS SEEMS ERRATIC, L63 1 was driving down a pretty country road with aLittle girl three years old beside me, when I… … Fig, 52.— How the Tree seems to move about. walk about the fields. But this was what this littlegirl saw, or rather what she thought she saw : and veryoften what we do see is something very different fromwhat we think we see. We think we see Mars per-forming all these extraordinary movements, as…
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