📚 2 Books mentioned in "Things You Thought You Knew – Naming Planets, Moons, & More with Neil deGrasse Tyson" of StarTalk Radio

So I have books from that period, the late 1700s to early 1800s, where the enumeration of planets is very clear. We know Earth is also a planet, right?

Neil discusses having historical astronomy texts from the late 1700s to early 1800s that clearly enumerate various planets, emphasizing that Earth is included as a planet.

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Right, I have books that list the planets in that order with those names. And you look back and say, 'What? What?'

Neil mentions having historical books that list the planets in a specific order, including an unusual name for Uranus, which evokes surprise.

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