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'The Planets,' by Dava Sobel
================= The author "has aimed 'The Planets' squarely at a mass audience receptive to the romance of the heavens, ready to have its mind boggled by weird and wonderful facts, and eager to coo and trill over verbal baby pictures of peppy little Mercury and seductive Venus," writes William Grimes. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/19/books/19...html?8bu&emc=bu -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
A fascinating Web site about one of the first and certainly among the
most famous of the lunar and planetary observers and recorders: http://www.pacifier.com/~tpope/index.htm This site includes extensive images and details about what Galileo saw when he aimed his telescopes at the Moon and other nearby worlds. As just one prime example: http://www.pacifier.com/~tpope/Moon_Page.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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ljk4-1 Dava Sobel's The Planets Oct 24 2005, 02:35 PM
helvick I've read this and have a couple of comments.
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ljk4-1 Dava Sobel, she of the bestselling Longitude and G... Dec 28 2005, 04:07 AM elakdawalla I haven't read the book yet myself but I saw D... Dec 28 2005, 12:39 PM ljk4-1 A Play Inspired by Dava Sobel's Galileo and Hi... Apr 12 2006, 09:33 PM |
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