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 280
his audience does, owing to thewalls of the room; because we cannot think therecan be containing walls for the stars; but they seemto thin out and ultimately fail, as a small audience THE STARS 259 might in a very big hall—front rows full, middle rowsrather scattered, back rows quite empty. It… … Fig. 85.—The Star Cluster in Hercules. we can very easily see the way in which they thinout. When we ourselves are inside such a cluster,it is not so easy; but by careful counting of thedifferent classes of stars, and reasoning upon thecounts, we may be able to do it still. But we must be careful,…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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