The Planets /
The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology,...
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New York :
Viking,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Model worlds
- Genesis (the sun)
- Mythology (Mercury)
- Beauty (Venus)
- Geography (earth)
- Lunacy (the moon)
- Sci-fi (Mars)
- Astrology (Jupiter)
- Music of the spheres (Saturn)
- Night air (Uranus and Neptune)
- UFO (Pluto)
- Planeteers (Coda).