Plurality of Words: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to KantCUP Archive, 29. jún. 1984 - 256 síður 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. |
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One World or an Infinity of Worlds? | 6 |
Aristotelian Natural Law versus Divine | 23 |
The Heliocentric Theory Scripture | 61 |
Cartesian Vortices the Infinite Universe | 106 |
Newton Natural Theology and the Triumph | 142 |
Science and the Plurality of Worlds | 176 |
Notes | 191 |
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