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Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity To 1915 : A Source Book
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Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity To 1915 : A Source Book Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Michael Crowe (Editor)

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  • Title Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity To 1915 : A Source Book
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 576
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
  • Date 2008-10-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5305267-6
  • ISBN 9780268023683 / 0268023689
  • Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 6.9 x 1.4 in (25.15 x 17.53 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Life on other planets, Plurality of worlds
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008026865
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.839

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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.

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  • Scitech Book News, 03/01/2009, Page 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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