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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
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Imagine
for
a
moment
that
you
could
cut
the
sun
and
the
earth
each
in
half
as
you
would
cut
an
apple;
then
if
you
were
to
lay
the
flat
side
of
the
half-earth
on
the
flat
side
of
the
half
sun
it
would
take
106
such
earths
to
stretch
across
the
face
of
the
sun.
One
of
these
106
round
spots
on
the
diagram
represents
the
size
which
our
earth
would
look
if
placed
on
the
sun;
and
they
are
so
tiny
compared
to
him
that
they
look
only
like
a
string
of
minute
beads
stretched
across
his
face.
Only
think,
then,
how
many
of
these
minute
dots
would
be
required
to
fill
the
whole
of
the
inside
of
Fig.
4,
if
it
were
a
globe.
One
of
the
best
ways
to
form
an
idea
of
the
whole
size
of
the
sun
is
to
imagine
it
to
be
hollow,
like
an
air-ball,
and
then
see
how
many
earths
it
would
take
to
fill
it.
You
would
hardly
believe
that
it
would
take
one
million,
three
hundred
and
thirty-one
thousand
globes
the
size
of
our
world
squeezed
together.
Just
think,
if
a
huge
giant
could
travel
all
over
the
universe
and
gather
worlds,
all
as
big
as
ours,
and
were
to
make
first
a
heap
of
merely
ten
such
worlds,
how
huge
it
would
be!
Then
he
must
have
a
hundred
such
heaps
of
ten
to
make
a
thousand
world;
and
then
he
must
collect
again
a
thousand
times
that
thousand
to
make
a
million,
and
when
he
had
stuffed
them
all
into
the
sun-ball
he
would
still
have
only
filled
three-quarters
of
it!
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