Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe

• Main Author: Kirby, Geoffrey (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Astronomers' Universe,
• Subjects: 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...