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Astrobiology, History, and Society : Life Beyond Earth and the Impact of Discovery.
This book addresses important current and historical topics in astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The first section covers the plurality of worlds debate from antiquity through the nineteenth century, while section two co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
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2013.
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| Colección: | Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I The Early Extraterrestrial Life Debate; 1 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Antiquity to 1900; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Before the Eighteenth Century; 1.2.1 The Ancient and Medieval Periods; 1.2.2 The Copernican Cosmological Shift; 1.2.3 Two Underlying Principles; 1.2.4 The Seventeenth Century; 1.2.5 Reaching a Wider Audience; 1.2.6 Extraterrestrials and Religion at the End of the Seventeenth Century; 1.3 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate in the Eighteenth Century; 1.3.1 The Period from 1700 to 1750. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1.3.2 The Sidereal Revolution of the 1750-1800 Period1.3.3 At the End of the Eighteenth Century; 1.4 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; 1.4.1 Some Considerations from Science; 1.4.2 Some Prominent Philosophers; 1.4.3 Religious Issues; 1.4.3.1 Three Authors in the Paine Tradition; 1.4.3.2 Some Authors in the Christian Tradition; 1.4.3.3 Two New Religions Involving Extraterrestrials; 1.4.4 The Sun and Moon as Special Cases; 1.4.4.1 The Sun; 1.4.4.2 The Moon; 1.5 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1.5.1 William Whewell1.5.2 Richard Anthony Proctor and Camille Flammarion; 1.5.3 The Sun and Moon; 1.5.4 Messages and Meteorites; 1.5.5 The Rise and Fall of the Island Universe Theory; 1.5.6 Extraterrestrials and Evolutionary Theory; 1.5.7 The Controversy over the Canals of Mars; 1.5.8 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate at the End of the Nineteenth Century; 1.6 Overview of Part I; 1.7 An Addendum by Michael J. Crowe: Updating My Extraterrestrial Life Debate (1986); 1.7.1 Blaise Pascal, Copernicanism, and Parallax; 1.7.2 Immanuel Kant and "The Starry Skies Above Me." | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1.7.3 On Investigating the History of the Extraterrestrial Life DebateReferences; 2 Early Modern ET, Reflexive Telescopics, and Their Relevance Today; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 "Two Storeys" of the Universe; 2.3 "The Shadow of Heaven"; 2.4 "Each Star an Island"; 2.5 "The Light of the Earth"; 2.6 "To Make Wings, and Fly Up"; 2.7 Reflexive Telescopics; References; 3 Extraterrestrial Life as the Great Analogy, Two Centuries Ago and in Modern Astrobiology; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Analogy; 3.3 Eighteenth Century Views on Extraterrestrial Life; 3.4 William Herschel. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3.5 Herschel and the Inhabited Sun3.6 Conclusion; References; 4 Hegel, Analogy, and Extraterrestrial Life; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Brief History of the Multiple Meanings of Analogy; 4.3 Hegel and Analogy; 4.4 Earth as Such and Earth in General; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 The Relationship Between the Origins of Life on Earth and the Possibility of Life on Other Planets: A Nineteenth-Century Perspective; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Origins of Life, Evolution, and Environmental Conditions; 5.3 Evolution and Panspermia: A Complex Relationship. | |
| 500 | |a 5.4 Emergence and Evolution of Life on Other Planets. | ||
| 520 | |a This book addresses important current and historical topics in astrobiology and the search for life beyond Earth, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). The first section covers the plurality of worlds debate from antiquity through the nineteenth century, while section two covers the extraterrestrial life debate from the twentieth century to the present. The final section examines the societal impact of discovering life beyond Earth, including both cultural and religious dimensions. Throughout the book, authors draw links between their own chapters and those of other co. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Extraterrestrial anthropology. | |
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