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 302
e chieflyis that the whole group moves together. Look(Fig. 90) at the picture of the group called thePleiades, in which arrows are drawn to represent THE STARS 279 the movements of the separate stars in a giventime : you will see that many of these arrows areabout in the same direction and about of… … Fig. 90.—Movements of the Pleiades. Since the arrows are not quite equal in length, andquite the same in direction, the arrow-heads forma figure rather different from the arrow-tails: thatis to say, after this lapse of time the partners willhave taken up rather different positions. Theyhave felt…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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