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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 40

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a planet orcomet is near the Sun, it bustles along at a greatpace, when it is far away it moves more soberly, THE STARTING-POINT, OUR EARTH 19 and when very far away it loiters terribly. That isreally because the gravity or attraction of the Sunis feeble at a distance and strong when close;…

Astronomy -- Juvenile literature

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