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 262
ere you see we are all ready,and in a few seconds more the total eclipse willbegin. I will ask you to keep silence, please, so thatthe time-caller and the astronomers instructionsmay be clearly heard. Now ! THE SUN 241 [At this signal the picture of the round Sun onthe screen, over which the dark… … The total Eclipse of 1898. paratively sudden decrease of daylight as totalitycomes on. The time-caller counted seconds : one,two, three ... in an even tone up to the 100seconds agreed upon; the astronomer received theplate-holders (which were imitated in wood andcardboard), put them into the…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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