Per. T. L. through . - M. : Centrifuge, 2004. 220 s. , il. The book tells about the history of mankind's representation of the structure of the solar system and the universe for thousands of years. You will learn about the great scientists of antiquity and modern scientific discoveries, about the most unexpected hypotheses and about what prospects are open to us in the future with the development of scientific and technological progress. Beginning in Babylon . Two Heavens . Rotating Stars . Drifting lights. Wandering Stars . The Greeks are on the scene. Shape of Earth. The seven moving heavens . Disadvantages of the Heavenly Spheres . New issues. Land in the center . Spheres on spheres . Spheres within spheres. The last word is spoken by Ptolemy .. The Sun takes over . Shifting the Earth . The book on his deathbed. Observatory in Denmark. Change of position. Not exactly circles. The telescope . The moons of Jupiter have failed.... Phases of Venus . Rings of Saturn . What keeps the worlds in place. Why doesn't the moon fall? - New telescope Why doesn't the moon fall? And there was light. The New Planet . Return of the Comet . The Comet That Wasn't . Further Adventures of Herschel . Distance table. The New Planet . Table space. Not one, but four. Not four, but thousands . Uranium . The Failures of John Adams . Completion of the system. The Little Moons[edit] Last look and good guess. "Touching the Earth" (DT) The Last Planet . According to Newton. The Planet That Wasn't . Distortion of space. The Decisive Eclipse . What now?Date table.