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 87
s we go up it gets less and less; or, perhaps, abetter way to look at it is that as we come downin the air the pressure gets greater, becauseevery layer has to support all the layers above it.Fig. 18 is a picture of a totem-post in the OxfordMuseum, kindly made for me by a member of theaudience and… … Fig. i a hunter. I believe theidea is that when a tribeconquers another tribe theytake their totem and puttheir own on the top: andthen again, if that tribe isconquered, the totem of theconquering tribe is againput on top. Now obviouslythese animals are strong andsolid, so they can bear allthat…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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