George Basalla

Civilized Life in the Universe (eBook, ePUB)

Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From Plutarch and Kepler to Stephen Hawkings and Carl Sagan, this book offers a fascinating history of scientific speculation about life in outer space. Basalla traces an unbroken but twisting chain of ideas passed from one scientist to the next, and from science to popular culture. He even examines the influence of popular culture on science--Sagan always admitted how much Burroughs' Martian novels influenced his speculations about Mars. Throughout, Basalla shows that scientific belief in and search for extraterrestrial civilizations is a complex impulse, part secularized-religious, and part anthropomorphic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190291402
• Artikelnr.: 42727030

Autorenporträt

George Basalla is Professor of History at the University of Delaware (Emeritus).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Trio of Ideas
2: Life on the Moon
3: From the Moon to the Planets
4: The Ascension of Mars
5: Percival Lowell: Champion of Canals
6: Mars Unveiled
7: Carl Sagan: Mars and Beyond
8: Life in an Expanding Universe
9: The Trajectory: CETI to SETI to HRMS
10: Mirror Worlds
11: Afterword
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