The Heavenly Bodies: Their Nature and Habitability: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Heavenly Bodies: Their Nature and Habitability, credited to William Miller, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Heavenly Bodies: Their Nature and Habitability by William Miller. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Few subjects could be mentioned more remote from the common interests and pursuits of life than what has been usually called the “plurality of worlds,” an expression now so long restricted to one well-ascertained meaning as to have lost any ambiguity that might have been charged upon it. The question is one of mere curiosity, and leads to no direct result; but it has always carried with it an attraction irrespective of its unpractical nature, and has exercised the ingenuity of so many minds that its literature is of no inconsiderable extent. To this the book now in our hands is the most recent contribution. - Summary by Nature, August 9, 1883

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Heavenly Bodies: Their Nature and Habitability
• Author credits: William Miller
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 10:50:17

Catalogue topics

• Mars
• planets
• solar system
• earth
• jupiter
• saturn
• atmosphere
• mercury

Track guide

1. 01 - Introductory Observation — 14:13
2. 02 - The Sun's Magnitude, Distance, Motions, Light, and Heat Part 1 — 40:23
3. 03 - The Sun's Magnitude, Distance, Motions, Light, and Heat Part 2 — 27:18
4. 04 - The Constitution of the Sun, its Spots and Prominences Part 1 — 19:35
5. 05 - The Constitution of the Sun, its Spots and Prominences Part 2 — 39:04
6. 06 - The Constitution of the Sun, its Spots and Prominences Part 3 — 25:42
7. 07 - Introductory Observations — 4:46
8. 08 - Historical Résumé — Views of Philosophers Part 1 — 38:52
9. 09 - Historical Résumé — Views of Philosophers Part 2 — 36:33
10. 10 - General Arguments for Plurality considered — Postulates — 17:24
11. 11 - The Sun, Stars, and supposed Stellar Systems Part 1 — 29:40
12. 12 - The Sun, Stars, and supposed Stellar Systems Part 2 — 21:46
13. 13 - Life upon the Earth Part 1 — 35:56
14. 14 - Life upon the Earth Part 2 — 30:41
15. 15 - Life upon the Earth Part 3 — 29:13
16. 16 - The Moon — 36:17
17. 17 - The Minor Planets Part 1 — 23:56
18. 18 - The Minor Planets Part 2 — 32:06
19. 19 - Smaller Bodies of the System Part 1 — 30:04
20. 20 - Smaller Bodies of the System Part 2 — 23:43
21. 21 - The Major Planets Part 1 — 21:50
22. 22 - The Major Planets Part 2 — 37:52
23. 23 - The Major Planets Part 3 — 22:00
24. 24 - Conclusion — 11:23

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