The New book of popular science 2

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To people before the seventeenth cen-

tury, the earth was the center of all things -

the hub around which revolved the sun,

moon, stars, and planets. This geocentric,

or "earth centered," theory has since been

abandoned. We know now that the earth is

a small planet and that it and its sister plan-

ets orbit a star called the sun. We know,

too, that the sun is one of thousands of mil-

lions~ of stars in the "island universe"

known as the Milky Way galaxy. This gal-

axy, in turn, is only one of thousands of mil-

lions of "island universes." Obviously,

then, our planet is only an insignificant

speck in the universe and not its center.

Yet, tiny though it is, the earth is of su-

preme importance to us humans, for it is

our home in space.