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 272
ly aphotographic fault,showing how brightthe star really is.But in the picture there are also many fainter stars, and even darkpatches where there seem to be no stars at all. Now, doyou think it is possible that there are no stars at all inthose places ? The photograph rather deceives us bybeing a… … Fig. 81.- -Region near the SouthernCross. (The Cross is on the right, two big stars andtwo much smaller.) 252 A VOYAGE IN SPACE but that does not deceive us into thinking that thisroom full of people is flat. We know that there aresome in the front row who come out big in the pictureand some in the…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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