Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quote

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?


Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, The Fifth Evening (p. 151), Printed for Peter Wilson. Dublin, Ireland. 1761


Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?