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Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)

Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 169

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was a tree walking across the field must 0 o *54 Star-Land. really have some quite different explanation, so we, too, findthat what Mars seems to do is one thing, and what Marsactually does is quite another thing. Let us see what the little girl noticed. She was look-ing at the tree, and first she… … Fig. 51.—How the Tree seems to Move about. little girl may, perhaps, have thought it unusual for a treeto walk, but still she saw the undoubted fact that the treehad shifted to the other side of. the house, and therefore,perhaps, remembering wThat the cow could do, she said thetree had moved. The…

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