A voyage in space; a course of six lectures "adapted to a juvenile auditory" delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas 1913 (1915)
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861-1930 · London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 132
se they wereafraid it might explode and damage the 100,000dollar telescope; but the astronomer said no, thatwas not the reason; they did not fear an explosion,as might be seen from the fact that the power-housewas close to his own dwelling-house in which therewas a million-dollar baby ! JOURNEYING… … Fig. 29. made to magnify a thousand times, say, but it doesnot follow that you will be pleased with the result.The magnifying depends partly on the big lens ormirror about which we have been talking and partlyon the eyepiece, the little lens you put your eye 112 A VOYAGE IN SPACE to. If the object…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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