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 282
ertain details; these are not men, but puppetshung on a Christmas tree, as you see in Fig. 8j.They are really all at the same distance; andtheir difference in size is real, because dolls andpuppets can be as different in size as we like.What led us wrong was the quiet assumption that THE STARS 261… … Fig. 87. that they do, and here is one of the pieces of experi-ence. Sir David Gill, now, I grieve to say, lyingvery ill with pneumonia,1 picked out a number ofstars of about the same brightness and actuallymeasured their distance away by the method of 1 Sir David Gill died on January 24, 1914. 262…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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