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 200
s to go upon; it wouldtake too long to explain it here, but I may remindyou that both Adams and Leverrier, in their cal- VISITS TO THE MOON AND PLANETS 179 culations to find Neptune, made the suppositionthat Bodes Law would go on in regular steps, andthey too got led astray by this supposition.… … Fig. 54- about an interesting situation. All the discoveriesof satellites were at first made by other nationsthan England or America. Galileo started byfinding four satellites of Jupiter, and it was notuntil nine in all had been discovered that anythingwas done in England. Once having started,…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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