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" The extraterrestrial life debate, antiquity to 1915 : "
edited with commentary by Michael J. Crowe
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BL
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626340
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Crowe, Michael J
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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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Notre Dame, Ind. :: University of Notre Dame,, c2008
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xxi, 554 p. :: ill., maps, ports. ;; 26 cm
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9780268023683
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: 0268023689
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 526-541) and index
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| Contents
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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 estraterrestrials -- 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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Life on other planets
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Plurality of worlds
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QB54.C764 2008
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