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 47
e globe, it would not be as large asthat football. If a million globes, as large as our earth,could be united together, no doubt a vast globe would beproduced, but it would not be as large as the sun. Thinkof a single house, with three or four people living init, and then think of this mighty… … Fig. 12,—A Party of Young Astronomers looking at the Sun. very long way off, and enormously big. And now we haveto see what the actual nature of the sun appears to be. If you get a piece of very dark glass, or if you smoke apiece of glass over a candle, then you can look directly atthe sun with…
Astronomy
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