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 299
l visits from the shoal. It is, however, a mere piece of good fortune that we 284 Star-Land. ever encounter the November meteors. Probably there arenumerous other shoals of meteors quite as important whichwe never see, just in the same way as there are many shoals offish in the sea that never come… … Meteors Fig. 78.—The Earth crossing the track of Meteor*. show all these objects on the same plane. This does not givea true representation of the orbits. I think you will betterunderstand what I mean by means of some wire rings.Make a round one to represent the path of the earth, and along oval…
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