Fairy tales are always about Vasilis the Beautiful and Koscheev the Immortals? But no! Before you is a new book of very unusual "scientific tales" based on real events. The young reader learns: - about Ptolemy, who hid the Earth in a crystal ball; - about Copernicus, who stopped the Sun and moved the Earth; - about Slifer, who discovered that galaxies scatter from us in different directions, and about other fabulously fascinating stories from the life of scientists and inventors who study the vastness of the Universe.