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 304
be the case. If youstand on the railway, where the lines run straightthey will seem to meet in the distance, whereas weknow that they always remain the same distance THE STARS 281 apart. The apparent meeting is an effect of per-spective. Some of you have no doubt learntperspective drawing and you… … Fig. 92. (See Notes to Illustrations.) by using the second method of watching theirmovements which we noticed, with the spectro-scope. The vanishing point represents thedirection in the far distance to which they aremigrating, like a flock of birds such as we see inFig. 92. There is one more group…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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