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 198
etter way ofmaking this experiment, using human arms insteadof wooden ones. We place the human being on aturn-table (made to turn very easily by ball-bearings) with arms extended and holding a pairof dumb-bells (Fig. 52), and then give her a gentle VISITS TO THE MOON AND PLANETS 177 rotation. If… … Fig- 52 by spinning the oil, it went sailing round its planetin the same direction as the spin; and this seemsnatural. We should expect a planet spinning withthe arrows (Fig. 54) to have a satellite like A,revolving in the same direction and not like B, re-volving in the opposite direction; and…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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