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 226
llustrated it in the Illustrated London News(Fig. 61); I should myself have drawn the detailsrather differently, but his picture is certainlyinteresting. Let me give you another illustration THE SUN 205 in words. On a ship when there is a head wind, thebows will sometimes hit a wave with a… … Fig. 61. suppose Saturn and his Ring to hit the wave ofLeonids : a shower of spray from the Leonids, orfrom Saturns Ring, or from both, is tossed up, soto speak; is caught, not by the wind, but by theSuns attraction, and is carried down to hit theSun in the face, though he may be a long way fromthe…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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