Sunday, January 08, 2006

Another Interesting Fact from The Planets

Here is a little gem from The Planets, by Dava Sobel. I'm reading this book right now and can't put it down...

"Is it an accident that the Solar System's lone inhabited planet possesses the only satellite precisely sized to create the spectacle of a total solar eclipse? Or is this startling manifestation of the Sun's hidden splendor part of a divine design?" (Sobel, p.27)

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