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 51
%:^k ■■ :>\N- * •^ • £ ■>■ ^ v-f •>; \yt •: Fig. 15. — Nasmyths Drawing of the Willow-leaved Structure ofthe Sun. do not see it at all on the 16th, or on the 21st; but onthe 26th it is back in the same place from which it 38 STAR-LAND. started. We find other spots to have a similar… … Fig. 16. — Spot nearing the Suns Edge. illustrated very simply by cutting a small hole throughthe rind of an orange down to the white interior skin,which may be darkened with ink. Put a knittingneedle through the axis of the orange, and then turn itslowly round. The spot will be found to go through…
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