Plurality of Worlds: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant
ISBN-13:
9780521319850
ISBN-10:
0521319854
Author:
Steven J. Dick
Publication date:
1984
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
Category:
Reference
,
History & Philosophy
,
History of Technology
,
Technology
,
Engineering
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ISBN-13:
9780521319850
ISBN-10:
0521319854
Author:
Steven J. Dick
Publication date:
1984
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
Category:
Reference
,
History & Philosophy
,
History of Technology
,
Technology
,
Engineering
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Plurality of Worlds: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant (ISBN-13: 9780521319850 and ISBN-10: 0521319854), written by authors
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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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