The Fairy-land of ScienceD. Appleton and Company, 1903 - 252 страници |
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... miles away . But tell me , can you see gas before it is lighted , even when it is coming out of the gas - jet close to your eyes ? Yet , if you learn to use that wonderful istrument the spectroscope , it will enable you to tell one kind ...
... miles away . But tell me , can you see gas before it is lighted , even when it is coming out of the gas - jet close to your eyes ? Yet , if you learn to use that wonderful istrument the spectroscope , it will enable you to tell one kind ...
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... miles away on the face of the sun ; nay more , it will read for you the nature of the different gases in the far distant stars , billions of miles away , and actually tell you whether you could find there any of the same metals which we ...
... miles away on the face of the sun ; nay more , it will read for you the nature of the different gases in the far distant stars , billions of miles away , and actually tell you whether you could find there any of the same metals which we ...
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... miles away ; how has he touched the rain - drops ? Have you ever heard that invisible waves are travelling every second over the space between the sun and us ? We shall see in the next lecture how these waves are the sun's messengers to ...
... miles away ; how has he touched the rain - drops ? Have you ever heard that invisible waves are travelling every second over the space between the sun and us ? We shall see in the next lecture how these waves are the sun's messengers to ...
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... miles distant from our earth . These figures are so enormous that you cannot really grasp them . But imagine yourself in an express train , travelling at the tremendous rate of sixty miles an hour and never stopping . At that rate , if ...
... miles distant from our earth . These figures are so enormous that you cannot really grasp them . But imagine yourself in an express train , travelling at the tremendous rate of sixty miles an hour and never stopping . At that rate , if ...
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... miles across , while the sun measures more than 852,000 . Each one of these dots represents roughly the size of the earth as com- pared to the size of the sun represented by the large circle . Imagine for a moment that you could cut the ...
... miles across , while the sun measures more than 852,000 . Each one of these dots represents roughly the size of the earth as com- pared to the size of the sun represented by the large circle . Imagine for a moment that you could cut the ...
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Страница 3 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.