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Author:

Crowe, Michael J.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxi, 554 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Life on other planets.
Plurality of worlds.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 526-541) and index.

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 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.

ISBN:

0268023689 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268023683 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008026865

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)