Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kirby, Geoffrey (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Astronomers' Universe,
• Θέματα: Astronomy.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; History.; Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History of Science.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.