Star-land
Being Talks With Young People About the Wonders of the Heavens
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Star-land is a set of talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens by Sir Robert Stawell Ball. The preface says it has long been the custom at the Royal Institution of Great Britain to provide each Christmastide a course of Lectures specially addressed to a juvenile audience. The preface says that on two occasions, namely in 1881 and in 1887, the Managers entrusted this honorable duty to the writer.
The contents list names, among others, lectures on the Sun, the Moon and the Inner Planets. The text says that Professor Hall discovered in 1877 that the ruddy planet Mars was attended by two moons, and that their behavior was most extraordinary. The text says of the nebula in Andromeda that it is so far off that we have never yet been able to determine its distance.
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- Sir Robert Stawell Ball
- Pages
- 255
- Language
- English
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- Childrens Classics
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