Word: elert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, after the newly invented telescope showed man that the planets were not simply flecks of light, it became quite fashionable to regard all of them as inhabited. The 18th century astronomer Johann Elert Bode, author of Bode's Law (each planet is roughly twice as far from the sun as the previous one), contended that the same mathematical proportions held for the spirituality of their inhabitants. Thus, by Bode's reckoning, Martians, on the fourth planet from the sun, were considerably more spiritual than the people on the third (earth...