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 253
that of Jupiter,but it is still large enough to swallow the Moonentirely. On the other hand, when the Mooncomes between the Earth and the Sun, its shadowcannot swallow the Earth at all, it can only at bestmake a little dark patch upon it; if you can getwithin that dark patch you will see a total… … Fig- 75-—A total Eclipse of the Sun. fore, makes a track on the Earth, and it mayinterest you to see the way in which these tracksarrange themselves on the Earth as years roll on.The movements of the Earth and Moon round theSun are of such a kind that after about eighteenyears they come back to…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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