Surely Michael Ward’s mind boiled and brightened in 2003 when he discovered that each of the seven books in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia echo one of the seven spheres of the medieval solar system. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, for example, embodies the festivity and sovereignty of the planet Jupiter, while The Horse and His Boy embodies the haste and heraldry of Mercury.
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