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 178
put instead of VISITS TO THE MOON AND PLANETS 157 Mars, who was the Roman god of war, the corre-sponding Scandinavian god of war Tuya, leading toTuesday; and for Venus, the Roman goddess of loveand beauty, we have substituted the ScandinavianFreya, leading to Friday. Perhaps as I have men-tioned… … JUPITER^ / \/ \ « ^MERCURY Fig- 43- easily observe which of them moved most slowlyand which most quickly. They put them in theorder of speed, beginning with Saturn, the slowest,then Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and theMoon, which moves quickest of all (see Fig. 43).The old astrologers…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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