The Sun’s Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet by Bob Berman

Author:Bob Berman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780316175395
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2011-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

WITH SUCH AN intimate, life-sustaining solar connection with our planet and biosphere, are we also linked to the Sun as individuals? Does its position at our birth correlate with our later personality? Or have we been reading the horoscopes for nothing all these years?

Since our focus is the rhythms of the Sun, we cannot ignore its periodic visits to each zodiac constellation and its supposed influence. Even such luminaries as Johannes Kepler believed in this astrological linkage for most of the past two thousand years. And surveys consistently show that more than a third of Americans still believe it.

For decades now, college astronomy courses have included at least one period dedicated to explaining and debunking the supposed personal birth influence of the Sun and planets. The rationale for this use of classroom time is a good one: with thousands of newspapers running Sun-sign astrology columns, people should have some venue in which the light of science addresses this ancient belief system about the Sun’s connection to our everyday lives.

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