 ... manner as I can what parallax is. There is an experiment pleasing and profitable, and which I have made in my youth, and which I have no doubt most of you have made in your time. It is this : if you place your head in...  Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures - Page 114by George Biddell Airy - 1866 - 292 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Biddell Airy - Astronomy - 1868 - 354 pages
...which I have no doubt most of you have made in your time. It is this : if you place your head in a corner of a room, or on a high-backed chair, and if...candle upon a table, and if you then try to snuff the candle with one eye shut, you will find that you cannot do it; in all probability you will fail... | |
 | William James Rolfe, Joseph Anthony Gillet - Astronomy - 1868 - 328 pages
...estimate distance. If you place your head in a corner of a room or against a high-backed chair, and close one eye, and allow another person to put a lighted candle on a table before you, and if you then try to snuff the candle, with one eye still shut, you will find... | |
 | Almanacs - 1870 - 956 pages
...the doctrine of parallax. We give the extract in his own words : — " If you place your head in a corner of a room, or on a high-backed chair, and if...candle upon a table, and if you then try to snuff the candle with one eye shut, you will find you cannot do it. ... You will hold the snuffers too near... | |
 | George Biddell Airy - Astronomy - 1881 - 310 pages
...which I have no doubt most of you have made in your time. It is this : if you place your head in a corner of a room, or on a high-backed chair, and if...candle upon a table, and if you then try to snuff the candle with one eye shut, you will find that you cannot do it; in all probability you will fail... | |
 | Gaston Tissandier - 1882 - 830 pages
...the doctrine of parallax. We give the extract in his own words : — " If you place your head in a corner of a room, or on a high-backed chair, and if...put a lighted candle upon a table, and if you then trv to snuff the candle with one eye Fig. 532. — "vVorks of a clock. shut, you will find you cannot... | |
 | Young ladies - Etiquette for young women - 1884 - 928 pages
...the extract in his own words : — "If you place your head in a corner of a room, or on a high-backd chair, and If you close one eye and allow another person to put a ligb"4 candle upon a table, and if you then try to snuff the candle with one eye shut, you will find... | |
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