The planets
By: Dava Sobel
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781405613408; 9781405613415
Subjects: Planets; Large type books
Description: Dava Sobel traces the lives of each member of our solar family, from myth and history, astrology and science fiction, to information from the modern era's robotic space probes.
Notes: Originally published: London : Fourth Estate, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Model worlds (Overview); title: Genesis (The sun); title: Mythology (Mercury); title: Beauty (Venus); title: Geography (Earth); title: Lunacy (The moon); title: Sci-fi (Mars); title: Astrology (Jupiter); title: Music of the spheres (Saturn); title: Discovery (Uranus and Neptune); title: UFO (Pluto); title: Planeteers (Conclusion); title: Acknowledgements; title: Glossary; title: Details (Notes); title: Bibliography; title: List of illustrations.