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We're the center of the universe! : science's biggest mistakes about astronomy and physics / Christine Zuchora-Walske.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Zuchora-Walske, Christine. Science gets it wrong ; Publisher: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, [2015]Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1467736635 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
  • 9781467736633 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • We are the center of the universe!
Subject(s):
Contents:
We're the center of the universe! -- Those goofy wandering stars -- Hot times on planet sun -- Beware the Martian hordes! -- Poor little Pluto -- Our lives are written in the stars -- As earth moves, the oceans slosh -- Don't get hit by a comet! -- Smackdown! golf ball vs. bowling ball -- Everything is made of earth, air, fire, and water -- No matter? no light -- The unchanging universe.
Summary: "Did you know that hundreds of years ago, the sun orbited Earth? Actually, this isn't true, but people thought it was! Discover other missteps and odd theories in physics and astronomy."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 520 Z94 Available 33111008006013
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Does the universe circle around Earth? Do creatures live on the sun? Can you tell the future by looking at the stars? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about physics and astronomy, and see how scientific thought changed over time.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-31) and index.

We're the center of the universe! -- Those goofy wandering stars -- Hot times on planet sun -- Beware the Martian hordes! -- Poor little Pluto -- Our lives are written in the stars -- As earth moves, the oceans slosh -- Don't get hit by a comet! -- Smackdown! golf ball vs. bowling ball -- Everything is made of earth, air, fire, and water -- No matter? no light -- The unchanging universe.

"Did you know that hundreds of years ago, the sun orbited Earth? Actually, this isn't true, but people thought it was! Discover other missteps and odd theories in physics and astronomy."-- Provided by publisher.

Ages 9-12.

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