The Solar System and Back

The Solar System and Back is a non-fiction book by Isaac Asimov. The collection of science essays was first published by Doubleday in 1970.

Contents

• Nothing
• The Solar System
  • The Inner System
    • The Seventh Planet
    • The Dance of the Sun
    • Backward, Turn Backward—
    • Little Lost Satellite
  • The Outer System
    • Little Found Satellite
    • View from Amalthea
    • The Dance of the Satellites
    • The Planetary Eccentric
• —And Back
  • Physics
    • Just Right
    • The Incredible Shrinking People
  • Chemistry
    • The First Metal
    • The Seventh Metal
    • The Predicted Metal
  • Biology
    • The Terrible Lizards
    • The Dying Lizards
    • Counting Chromosomes
    • Uncertain, Coy, and Hard to Please

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See Also

List of Books by Isaac Asimov