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 75
omes across this same difficulty, since the squint is always small, owing to the object being veryfar away. Now there is one method of getting overthis difficulty which I have not yet mentioned : ifwe could put our eyes at the end of long horns, notlike those of a snail, which project forward, but… … stead of being about 2 inches we have made it severalfeet. We have not heard of any actual men witheyes set on horns in this way : Sir John Maundevilerelated some wonderful travellers tales in olddays, when there was less chance of finding him outthan there is now : he wrote of anthropophagi and…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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