Plurality of Worlds: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant
Steven J. Dick
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.
Thể loại:
Năm:
1984
Nhà xuát bản:
Cambridge University Press
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
256
ISBN 10:
0521319854
ISBN 13:
9780521319850
File:
PDF, 31.80 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1984