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...
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Author: Michael Crowe
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Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book by Crowe, Michael

Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book

€95,43

Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book

€95,43
Author: Michael Crowe
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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, Nicholas of Cusa, Galileo, Kepler, Pascal, Fontenelle, Huygens, Newton, Pope, Voltaire, Kant, Paine, Chalmers, Darwin, Wallace, Dostoevski, Lowell, and Antoniadi, among others. Michael J. Crowe has compiled an extensive bibliography not available in other sources.

These materials reveal that the extraterrestrial life debate, rather than being a relatively modern phenomenon, has extended throughout nearly all Western history and has involved many of its leading intellectuals. The readings also demonstrate that belief in extraterrestrial life has had major effects on science and society, and that metaphysical and religious views have permeated the debate throughout much of its history.



Author: Michael Crowe
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780268023683


Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 03/01/2009 pg. 42

About the Author

Michael J. Crowe is the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus in Humanities in the Program of Liberal Studies and Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He has published a number of books, including The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900: The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell.




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