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 154
d then comes the dip.Now the eye is able to see this without any telescopeat all; and we can interpret the dip to mean thatsomething comes in front of the light. Imagine two JOURNEYING BY TELESCOPE 133 bodies, one of them bright, the other dark, revolvinground each other (Fig. 33). So long as the… … Punchs Representation of Algol, An Astronomical Reprobate. (See Notes to Illustrations.) in a remarkable way by the spectroscope; andfrom being only a hypothesis has become a seriousaddition to our knowledge—so serious that ithas been honoured with an illustration in Punchby that clever artist Mr.…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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