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 274
y haveto incline it a good deal before the end disappears; THE STARS 253 but if it is very long, the slightest tilt will make youlose the end-Now, if these patches showing no stars are reallyvacant spaces, they must be like very long corridorsor tubes pointed very straight at us : that they arevery… … LECTURE ROOM SHEWING EMPTYSPACES FROM POSITION A, BUT NOT FROM B. Fie. 82. bounded by solid walls. There are no walls con-fining the stars : behind the front rows there areothers, and behind them others still, and again others,and we never come to walls, so far as we know atpresent; so that the…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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