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The extraterrestrial life debate, antiquity to 1915 : a source book /
"This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions and commentaries accompany each source document, some of which are published here for the first time or in a new translation. Authors included are Aristotle, Lucretius, Aquinas, Nichol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.