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 254
ghteen years exactly, but eighteen years ten andone-third days, and the one-third of a day is im-portant, because it shifts the track just one-thirdof the way round the Earth. You will see how the THE SUN 233 track of 1824 is followed eighteen years later by thetrack of 1842 to the left, and that… … Fig. 76. word nearly, because none of these things happenexactly; you see that the 1878 track is just abovethe 1824 track, which has the 1770 track below it inturn. So that these tracks make a regular patternon the Earth which we can almost draw for ourselveswhen we have got a few of them. Since…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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