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 93
asthe lawn-tennis ball. But this proportion is not quite 80 STAR-LAND. accurate, so I will suggest to you an instructive way ofmaking a better pair of models of the earth and themoon. In fact, experiments somewhat similar to thoseI describe have been actually going on in every kitchenin the land… … Fig. 32. —Relative Sizes of the Earth and Moon. that shall fairly set forth the sizes of the earth and themoon. There is first to be a nice little round plum-pudding, three inches in diameter. It is just a littlebigger than a cricket ball. It should, however, onlymake its appearance at a bachelors…
Astronomy
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