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This book presents key documents from the pre-1915 history of the extraterrestrial life debate. Introductions ...
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THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE DEBATE examines all the philosophies and theories of other life from ...
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The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900 (eBook)
By: Michael J. Crowe
"Are we alone in the universe? Are there other beings on other worlds who gaze into the night sky and try to imagine us, as we try to imagine them? Those questions have been debated since antiquity, but it was during the Enlightenment that they particularly began to engage the interest of prominent scientists and thinkers. In this fascinating volume, Professor Michael Crowe offers the first in-depth study in English of the international debate that developed between 1750 and 1900 concerning the existence of extraterrestrial life, a problem that engaged an extraordinary variety of Western thinkers across the spectrum of intellectual endeavor. Astronomers such as Herschel, Bode, Lalande, and Flammarion all weighed in, along with French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire, American patriot Thomas Paine, Scots churchman Thomas Chalmers, and a host of others. Professor Crowe gives them all their say, as they address the question as a point of science, as a problem of philosophy, as well as a religious issue".
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The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900 (eBook) (doverpublications.com)
"Michael Crowe
Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus, Program of Liberal Studies and Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science
Cavanaugh Professor Emeritus
Education
Ph.D. (History of Science with Minors in Physics and Intellectual History), University of Wisconsin
B.A. (Program of Liberal Studies) and B.S. (Science), University of Notre Dame
Research and Teaching Interests
Great Books; History and Philosophy of Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics
Bio
A specialist in the history of modern physical science, Crowe has authored eight books. These include his History of Vector Analysis (awarded a Jean Scott Prize from La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris), The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750–1900: The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell (now available in a three-volume Japanese translation),"
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Michael Crowe | Emeriti Faculty | People | Program of Liberal Studies | University of Notre Dame (nd.edu)
