Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe

From unicorns on the Moon to UFOs piloted by Martian bees, this book chronicles some of the strangest ideas that have been put forward - and have actually been believed in -- about our Solar System. Drawn from tales dating from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection of stories takes readers...

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Main Author: Kirby, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Astronomers' Universe,
Subjects:
Astronomy.
Observations, Astronomical.
Astronomy-Observations.
History.
Cosmology.
ISBN:9783319730226
ISSN:1614-659X
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: The Sun and Its Solar System
  • A Sexy Musical Pool Game? Chapter 3: Our Three Wacky Inner Planets
  • Imaginary, Delusionary and Inhabited
  • Chapter 4: Earth
  • Flat, Hollow or Inside Out?
  • Chapter 5: Our Moon - Inhabited, Small and Icy
  • Chapter 6: Mars: Inhabited and a Threat?
  • Chapter 7: Solar System Rubble: The Home of Princess Moon Owl?
  • Chapter 8: The Outer Planets
  • Forests of Hemp, Armadas of Seamen and the Holy Foreskin of Jesus
  • Chapter 9: Wackiness Beyond the Solar System
  • Chapter 10: Is It Wacky to Believe in Astrology and UFOs?
  • Index.

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