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The extraterrestrial life debate, antiquity to 1915 : a source book / edited with commentary by Michael J. Crowe.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Crowe, Michael J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame, ©2008.
Subjects:
Life on other planets.
Plurality of worlds.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part one : Antiquity to Newton
  • The debate in antiquity
  • From Augustine to the fifteenth century
  • From Copernicus to Bruno
  • Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and Pascal
  • Fontenelle and Huygens
  • Newton, Bentley, and Derham
  • Part two : the eighteenth century
  • Astronomers and extraterrestrials
  • Extraterrestrials and the enlightenment
  • Part three : from 1800 to 1860
  • Intensification of the debate after 1800
  • Before the Whewell debate
  • Whewell's Of the plurality of worlds and responses
  • Part four : From 1860 to 1915
  • New approaches to an ancient question
  • The late nineteenth century
  • The controversy over the canals of Mars
  • Conclusion
  • Apendix : the history of ideas of extraterrestrial life research program.

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