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Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant

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This book presents a comprehensive historical study of the debate over extraterrestrial life from ancient Greece through the Enlightenment. Steven J. Dick traces arguments from philosophers and scientists such as Democritus, Aristotle, Aquinas, Galileo, Kepler, Huygens, and Kant, showing how scientific reasoning, theological considerations, and philosophical speculation shaped evolving views on the plurality of worlds. The work demonstrates how these traditions gradually converged toward the idea that the universe could be populated by intelligent life, making it a foundational text in the history of astrobiology and cosmological thought.

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574.999 D547

Publisher

Cambridge (Cambridgeshire), UK : Cambridge University Press., 1982

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0521243084

Classification

574.999

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text

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unmediated

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Edition

1st

Subject(s)

Plurality of worlds Life on other planets History

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