Plurality of Words: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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.Read More

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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.

  • 0521243084
  • 9780521243087
  • Steven J. Dick
  • 31 March 1982
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
  • 1
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