Plurality of worlds : the origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant

Author(s)

• Dick, Steven J.

Bibliographic Information

Plurality of worlds : the origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant

Steven J. Dick

Cambridge University Press, c1982

• hard
• pbk.

Note

Bibliography: p. 222-235

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a fascinating history of the debate over the question of extraterrestrial life from Classical Greece to the mid-eighteenth century. Using many primary and secondary sources, this book analyses why such great thinkers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Kant thought the debate over the plurality of worlds a subject for serious discussion. The author shows how conflicting arguments from science, philosophy, and theology gradually converged to the same opinion - that intelligent life must fill the universe.

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Details

• NCID: BA00756871
• ISBN:
  • 0521243084
  • 0521319854
• LCCN: 81010165
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
• Pages/Volumes: x, 246 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QB54
  • DC19 : 574.999
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Plurality of worlds
  • LCSH : Life on other planets