The Planets
Ratings8
Average rating3.3
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Ratings8
Average rating3.3
The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in this personal account of the lives of other worlds. With her gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story, Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.--From publisher description.
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Great information. A little poetic at times which was sometimes lovely and other times not to my taste.
I appreciate the effort to make what would otherwise be a dry, recitation of facts into something more fun, but this book is far too romantic for my tastes. And I did not appreciate the constant references to supernatural and mystical things... I'm reading for science, not magic here.
I rather enjoyed this little book! It explains the planets and solar system in everyday language while drawing on history, myth, science fiction, art, literature which makes what could be dry, boring material come to life and enjoyable to read. There is nothing earth shattering in the info covered in the book, but it provides am entertaining refresher!!
