Soal dan Pembahasan TBI (Reading Comprehension) Bagian 35

        Throgh much of the early history of science it was assumed that all the planets are inhabited. For example in the 18th  century, Johann Elert Bode of Germany drew attention to the systematic  spacing  of  the  planets  –  what  is known as Bode’s law – and proposed that there are   also   systematic   differences   among   the people living in these various bodies. Bode’s law sats that spacing between the planets’ orbits tends to double with each step outward from the sun. Thus the interval between the orbits of the Earth and Mars, the next planet out from the sun, is roughly twice that between earth and Venus, whose orbit lies inside that of the Earth.

        Likewise,  the  planets  are  composed  of lighter material as one moves outward from the sun, and Bode said this progression applied as well to the spirits of their inhabitants. The philosopher Immanuel Kant elaborated on this idea. Because Mercury is so near the sun and hence  so  hot,  he  said,  its  residents  are  in primitive moral state, whereas the inhabitants of Jupiter are in superior state of advancement.