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 78
say, two telescopes at the end of the base) on theMoon is quite considerable, and by measuring it wefind that the distance of the Moon is 240,000 miles,as I told you. And it was to find out this fact thatour Government established the Royal observatoriesat Greenwich and at the Cape of Good Hope,… … 1 MOONFig- 13- me that the astronomers would not have been quiteso comfortable in that case, and we have to sacrificesomething for comfort. This old difficulty, however, is not yet done with :it crops up again in a most tiresome way when wewant to find the distance of the Sun instead of thatof the…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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