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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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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
you
wished
to
arrive
at
the
sun
today
you
would
have
been
obliged
to
start
171
years
ago.
That
is,
you
must
have
set
off
in
the
early
part
of
the
reign
of
Queen
Anne,
and
you
must
have
gone
on,
never,
never
resting,
through
the
reigns
of
George
I,
George
ii,
and
the
long
reign
of
George
III,
then
through
those
of
George
IV,
William
IV,
and
Victoria,
whirling
on
day
and
night
at
express
speed,
and
at
last,
today,
you
would
have
reached
the
sun!
And
when
you
arrived
there,
how
large
do
you
think
you
would
find
him
to
be?
Anaxagoras,
a
learned
Greek,
was
laughed
at
by
all
his
fellow
Greeks
because
he
said
that
the
sun
was
as
large
as
the
Peloponne-sus,
that
is
about
the
size
of
Middlesex.
How
astonished
they
would
have
been
if
they
could
have
known
that
not
only
is
he
bigger
than
the
whole
of
Greece,
but
more
than
a
million
times
bigger
than
the
whole
world!
Our
world
itself
is
a
very
large
place,
so
large
that
our
own
country
looks
only
like
a
tiny
speck
upon
it,
and
an
express
train
would
take
nearly
a
month
to
travel
round
it.
Yet
even
our
whole
globe
is
nothing
in
size
compared
to
the
sun,
for
it
only
measures
8000
miles
across,
while
the
sun
measures
more
the
852,000.
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