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 206
ief model. The Royal Astronomical Society haskindly lent us a beautiful relief model of a part of VISITS TO THE MOON AND PLANETS 185 the Moons surface, with a model of the neighbour-hood of Vesuvius alongside it, so that we can comparethe two. You see that on the whole the Earthsmountains are… … mmMi**tt Part of Moon. Vesuvius and Bay of Naples. From Plate VI of The Moon (Xasmyth & Carpenter) than they used to be. On the Moon there is no rain,and so the mountains remain unwashed. One way of measuring the heights of a mountainin the Moon is to measure the length of the shadowit casts.…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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