30 THE FAIRY-LAND OF SCIENCE. 
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 
Fig. 4- 
106 earths laid across the face of the sun. Each one of these dots 
represents roughly the size of the earth as compared to the size of the 
sun represented by the large circle. 
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. 
