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  title info:
    title: Myths, Symbols and Legends of Solar System Bodies
  name:
    name part: Alexander, Rachel.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 234 p. 92 illus., 43 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is an amateur astronomer’s guide to the mythology and symbolism associated with the celestial bodies in the Solar System, and even includes some of the legendary tales of people who had or have a connection with these objects. It explores different cultures (for example, the Greco-Roman and the Norse) and different times and how stories were used to explain the worlds they saw above them. You’d be amazed how much of our world today reflects the myths and stories of these cultures! Most amateur astronomers are familiar with the various Solar System objects, but they will be only peripherally aware of what ancient cultures thought of these other worlds. In fact, the mythology of the planets challenges many twenty-first century concepts and beliefs There are other books available on astromythology, but this one focuses mostly on our own Solar System, as opposed to the constellations and deep sky objects. Alexander offers a new angle on timeless subjects and is exciting, informative and dramatic, as well as surprisingly relevant to everyday life. Find out for yourself how our modern world is steeped in the bygone worlds of yesteryear.
  table of contents: The Sun Through Antiquity -- Symbols of the Sun -- Planets -- Mercury -- Venus -- Earth -- Aurora Borealis -- Earth’s Moon -- Lunar Eclipses -- Mars and Its Moons -- Comets -- The Asteroid Belt -- Jupiter and Its Moons -- Saturn and Its Moons -- The Lost Planet -- Uranus and Its Moons -- Neptune and Its Moons -- Pluto and Its Moons. .
  note: by Rachel Alexander.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cultural heritage
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Heritage
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, 177
  identifier: 9781461470670
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7067-0
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    record creation date: 141104
    record change date: 20151204163730.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-7067-0