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 184
rying. So hewoke up the professorat Cambridge and toldhim to begin search-ing. The professorset to work, but wasstill half asleep, sothat though he lookedstraight at Neptunemore than once, hedid not recognize it.Meanwhile Leverrierhad set Galle, a Ger-man astronomer, towork (it is very curious how… … The statue of Leverrier at theParis Observatory. 164 A VOYAGE IN SPACE as to whose planet it really was; everybody blamedsomebody else, except Adams, who never blamedany one but himself for being too shy and easilydiscouraged. We need not follow the story furthernow than to say that it was at last…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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