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 172
se are not the actual distances, but they are soclose to them that the extra convenience of beingable to remember them or to write them down out-weighs the disadvantage of inaccuracy for manypurposes. The law which helps us to remember them wasfirst stated by a man called Titius, and we ought… … Saturn : photographed by Barnard in 1911, with the 5-footReflector on Mount Wilson. to them other numbers which are doubled everytime, beginning with 3 for Venus. The easiest wayto remember it is to try and remember that theEarths distance comes out 10; and perhaps alsothat Saturn is 100; from…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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