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    Universe: The Solar System and Beyond
    Universe: The Solar System and Beyond
    Universe: The Solar System and Beyond
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    Universe: The Solar System and Beyond

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    Experience the cosmos as never before with UNIVERSE: The Solar System and Beyond
    Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, this book takes us on a trip across time and space that includes a front-row seat to the explosive birth of the solar system, a journey to (and then deep inside) each of its eight planets, and even an in-depth exploration of asteroids and comets.
    With this newly revised edition, the authors' goals are to help you use astronomy to understand science--and use science to understand what we are. Fascinating, engaging, and visually vibrant, this text will help you answer two fundamental questions: What are we? And how do we know?
    Three ever widening domains are presented—Earth, our solar system, and the large scale universe itself--each including the ones before it and extending outward.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMy Ebook Publishing House
    Release dateJul 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301246564
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      Universe - My Ebook Publishing House

      UNIVERSE

      The Solar System and Beyond

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      Published by My Ebook Publishing House at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 My Ebook Publishing House

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Table of Contents

      I. OUR PLANET

      II. LET`S LEAVE EARTH

      The planets

      III. BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

      I. OUR PLANET

      Today it is well known that the Earth is a corpus round as an orange. It is surrounded by a blanket of air which we call atmosphere. But a few thousand years ago the people thought that the Earth is flat like a plate, surrounded by waters and that above it is found a round crystal arch in which are implanted the stars, the sun and the moon. Where did this belief come from? The people, up until those times, were not going too far away from their homes. They were spending all their life on a small portion of land which seemed flat like a table. The sky seemed to unite with the Earth someplace, in a place they called the horizon. Later, people imagined that the Earth is surrounded by waters and that it supports on some poles.

      According to some opinions from the Antiquity, the Earth was flat, surrounded by waters and supported by poles.

      In the Bible is also described the making of the Earth, or the World, pretty much the same. Besides, with slight modifications, this description was found in many religious books. According to the Bible, God made the World according to his will. As we will see furthermore, listening to the voice of science, the universe is built entirely different: the will of God is not at all respected. Two thousand years ago were savants who told that the shape of the Earth is not as the religious writings described and that it is spherical (round as a globe).

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