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 84
.Horrox was quite a young fellow, and I am sorryto say that he died at the age of only 24. He haddone so much before 24 that some people think that THE LENGTH OF OUR VOYAGE 63 if he had lived he might, perhaps, have been an evengreater man than Newton. We see that our Voyage in Space will take us… … Horrox observing a Transit of Venus for the first time.See Xotes to Illustrations.) a railway journey, what a long time it takes to getout of the station; or if you take a voyage on a ship,what a business it is getting out of dock. Afterwardswhen the ship has started the voyage becomes…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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