📚 Solar System

Books with solar system on their catalogue record, first published between 1632 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject solar system in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,408 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	21st Century Astronomy	Jeffrey S. Hester	2002	46
	The sun	Franklyn M. Branley	1961	19
	The Cosmic Connection	Carl Sagan	1973	19
	The Planets	Dava Sobel	2005	19
	Foundations of astronomy	Michael A. Seeds	1984	18
	Death by black hole : and other cosmic quandaries	Neil deGrasse Tyson	2007	11
	what makes day and night	Franklyn M. Branley	1961	10
	Dialogo sopra i duemassimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico e copernicano	Galileo Galilei	1632	9
	The New Solar System	Andrew Chaikin	1981	9
	The solar system	Michael A. Seeds	1998	9
	What do we know about the solar system?	Ian Graham	2011	9
	The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe	Dorothy Stimson	1917	8
	Space Puzzles	Martin Gardner	1971	8
	Moons and planets	William K. Hartmann	1972	8
	Astronomy, from the earth to the universe	Jay M. Pasachoff	1979	8
	Space Rocks	Aaron Waldeck	2001	8
	Our solar system	Isaac Asimov	1988	7
	Solar system	Dr. Mike Goldsmith	2004	7
	Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics	Rene Taton	1989	6
	Hello Out There	Joanna Cole	1995	6
	Me and My Place in Space	Joan Sweeney	1998	6
	The moon	Charlotte Guillain	2008	6
	Moon!	Stacy McAnulty	2019	6
	The orbs around us	Richard A. Proctor	1872	5
	The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe	Dorothy Stimson	1917	5
	The grand tour	Miller, Ron	1981	5
	Atlas of the Solar System	Patrick Moore	1983	5
	The planetary system	Morrison, David	1988	5
	Our Solar System	Seymour Simon	1992	5
	Where are the stars during the day?	Melvin Berger	1993	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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