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 281
yof mistake at which I have already hinted. There 260 A VOYAGE IN SPACE may be grown-ups in the back rows and small peoplein front : in other words, there may be very brightstars at a distance, and faint ones near to us; and ifwe do not remember this, our inferences from thecounts will be wrong.… … g nearly of the same height, and when they appear sovery different in size as in the picture, the differencemust be due to distance. So we think. But nowI have deceived you in this picture by omittingcertain details; these are not men, but puppetshung on a Christmas tree, as you see in Fig. 8j.They…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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