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 29
t ultimately, to his great delight, he waselected Professor at his native city of Pisa, and hemade use of the leaning tower to try his famousexperiment with a ten-pound weight and a one-poundweight. In the presence of many witnesses, who 8 A VOYAGE IN SPACE had all pinned their faith on Aristotle,… … Galileo dropping the two weights from theLeaning Tower of Pisa. the thing they saw with their eyes. Such was theirprofound respect for Aristotle that they declaredthat there must be some mistake in the experiment,since Aristotle could not be wrong. In honour of Galileos memory, I want us to trythis…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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