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Plurality Of Worlds: The Origins Of The Extraterrestrial Life Debate From Democritus To Kant

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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.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: June 29, 1984

ISBN: 0521319854

ISBN 13: 9780521319850

Plurality Of Worlds: The Origins Of The Extraterrestrial Life Debate From Democritus To Kant

4.2/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: June 29, 1984

ISBN: 0521319854

ISBN 13: 9780521319850

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