PREFACE.

LECTURE I.

LECTURE II.

INDEX.

Title: Time and Tide

A Romance of the Moon

Author: Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

Language: English

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THE ROMANCE OF SCIENCE.

TIME AND TIDE,
A Romance of the Moon.

BEING TWO LECTURES DELIVERED
IN THE THEATRE OF THE LONDON INSTITUTION,
ON THE AFTERNOONS OF NOVEMBER 19 AND 26, 1888.

BY

SIR ROBERT S. BALL, LL.D., F.R.S.,
ROYAL ASTRONOMER OF IRELAND.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF
GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION APPOINTED
BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE.

LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
BRIGHTON: 135, NORTH STREET.
New York: E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.

View of the Moon two days after first quarter.
From a photograph by Mr. Lewis M. Rutherford.
Frontispiece.

TO
The Members of the London Institution
I DEDICATE
THIS LITTLE BOOK.