The Planet-Girded Suns: Man's View of Other Solar Systems
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Language: English
Published by Atheneum, 1974
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- Title
- The Planet-Girded Suns: Man's View of Other Solar Systems
- Author
- Engdahl, Sylvia Louise
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Publication year
- 1974
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0689301359
- ISBN 13
- 9780689301353
- Illustrator
- Illus. By Richard Cuffari
Surveys theories and speculations on the possibility of life on other planets throughout history and discusses current scientific thinking on this subject.
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The book's title is from an 1829 poem by Tennyson:
. . . The clear galaxy
Shorn of its hoary lustre, wonderful,
Distinct and vivid with sharp points of light,
Blaze within blaze, an unimagin'd depth
And harmony of planet-girded suns
And moon-encircled planets, wheel in wheel,
Arch'd the wan sapphire. Nay--the hum of men,
Or other things talking in unknown tongues
And notes of busy life in distant worlds
Beat like a far wave on my anxious ear.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Timbuctoo," 1829
. . . The clear galaxy
Shorn of its hoary lustre, wonderful,
Distinct and vivid with sharp points of light,
Blaze within blaze, an unimagin'd depth
And harmony of planet-girded suns
And moon-encircled planets, wheel in wheel,
Arch'd the wan sapphire. Nay--the hum of men,
Or other things talking in unknown tongues
And notes of busy life in distant worlds
Beat like a far wave on my anxious ear.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Timbuctoo," 1829
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