The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse TysonMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Fun, quick easy read with narration by < a href="https://tantor.com/narrator/mirron-wi... Willis voiced very much like Tyson himself. It is interesting not only in the scientific angles around Pluto's classification, but the media storm with Tyson at the center after a visiting New York Times reported noticed Pluto's absence from a (not new) exhibition at Hayden Planetarium. In all the details here, including appendixes covering Pluto's stats and lyrics to songs commiserating with the demoted plutino are two questions foremost in my mind about this tempest in a teapot:
1. What is about Americans that they feel democracy and even sentimentality admit into scientific classification?
and,
2. Was there anything like this in the movement from the four classical elements (air, earth, fire, water) to the Table of Elements? I guess if this did happen, it would have been during of before Lavoisier's Elementary Treatise of Chemistry, was written in 1789 and considered to be the first modern textbook about chemistry. It contained a list of elements.
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