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 63
actual blowing asone blows with ones breath; it may be electricalrepulsion; or it may be light pressure—the fiercelight of the Sun acting as a blast would act andblowing the tail out. We can see this action of the Sun in blowing away 42 A VOYAGE IN SPACE the tail by comparing two photographs taken… … Changes in a Comets Tail(By E. E. Barnard.) got one picture of the tail; then, by waiting anhour or two, he got another, showing how the tailhad changed in the interval. Finally he has veryskilfully combined the two pictures, so that thestars on one fall exactly on the stars in the other.You see…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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