The Planet-Girded Suns (Updated Edition)
by Sylvia Engdahl
Price: $3.99 USD. 88680 words.
Language: English. Published by Ad Stellae Books on May 18, 2012. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Astronomy.
The history of human thought about extrasolar worlds.
From the late 17th century until the end of the 19th, almost all educated people believed that the stars are suns surrounded by inhabited planets. This book, first published by Atheneum in 1974 and now updated, tells the story of the rise, fall, and eventual renewal of widespread conviction that we are not alone in the universe.