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 197
they arefar out from the axis and in the second they are closeto it. In the case of a planet, the shrinking maytake millions of years; but to save time, we do it ina fraction of a second. Now I will spin the apparatus 176 A VOYAGE IN SPACE Without interfering slowly with the bars extendedwith the… … -J WEIGHTSOROPPED. Heath to turn the handle quicker; and so we get oursatellites formed because the planets shrink as theycool. There is another and perhaps a better way ofmaking this experiment, using human arms insteadof wooden ones. We place the human being on aturn-table (made to turn very…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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