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 46
irst suspect the truth which he found out twenty yearslater, and which is, that we must measure from thecentre C, which is just as near to K as to F. Hethought that the correct starting-point would be atsome point like R, nearer to F than to K; and hecould not make any such point fit in with what… … 26 A VOYAGE IN SPACE tary of the Royal Society, wrote to Newton askinghim whether he had any interesting suggestion forone of the meetings. Newton replied in a famousletter, which became even more famous because itdisappeared, and was only quoted from memory.Fortunately it was recovered by Trinity…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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