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For all but a sliver of human history, the boundaries of the Solar System have been set by our eyes. Saturn, the most distant naked-eye planet, was where the power of the Sun was deemed to end. Beyond it, the ancient and medieval models of the cosmos showed the fixed sphere of the stars and then the outer limit of all things.
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Marett-Crosby, M. (2013). Habituated to the Vast. In: Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6800-4_18
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