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 80
asure the differ-ence as accurately asthey had hoped.They hoped to deter-mine the exact secondwhen the transit began or ended. It would have beenbest for them if there could have been a moment suchas that labelled II in Fig. 15, when the black disc ofVenus just touched the bright edge of the… … Fig. 15.—An Ideal Transit of Venus. 60 A VOYAGE IN SPACE there had been just a single instant like II, whichthey could note accurately. Then they would havefound out the Suns distance very exactly. Un-fortunately it was not so, and they knew from pre-vious Transits that it would not be so. Instead…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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