Are the Planets Inhabited?

ISBN-13: 9781508856290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 92 str.

E. Walter Maunder

Opis

The first thought that men had concerning the heavenly bodies was an obvious one: they were lights. There was a greater light to rule the day; a lesser light to rule the night; and there were the stars also. In those days there seemed an immense difference between the earth upon which men stood, and the bright objects that shone down upon it from the heavens above. The earth seemed to be vast, dark, and motionless; the celestial lights seemed to be small, and moved, and shone.