The extraterrestrial life debate, antiquity to 1915 : a source book

著者

• Crowe, Michael J.

書誌事項

The extraterrestrial life debate, antiquity to 1915 : a source book

edited with commentary by Michael J. Crowe

University of Notre Dame Press, c2008

注記

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

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA9103940X
• ISBN:
  • 9780268023683
• LCCN: 2008026865
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Notre Dame, Ind.
• ページ数/冊数: xxi, 554 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QB54
  • DC22 : 576.8/39
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Life on other planets
  • LCSH : Plurality of worlds