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 208
HE MOON AND PLANETS 187 really so bad as I have made it appear to you; I haveexaggerated things for the sake of plainness. Onething which helps us is that the Sun moves about,throwing shadows in different directions and of differ-ent lengths from the same mountain; so that if thesupposed plain… … Fig. 56. the Earth? At the beginning of this lecture weconsidered the case of Mars, and I showed you howhard it would be to see any signs of life on Mars byturning things round and supposing that we werelooking at the Earth from Mars. You rememberthat we could not see violent changes in the…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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