9780521319850-0521319854-Plurality of Worlds: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant

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
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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

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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 Steven J. Dick, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1984. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Reference (History & Philosophy, History of Technology, Technology, Engineering) books. You can easily purchase or rent Plurality of Worlds: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.36.

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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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