The Plurality of Worlds
Author | : William Whewell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Plurality of worlds |
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Author | : William Whewell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Plurality of worlds |
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Author | : Pierre Connes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2021-06-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783030414504 |
Modern research has demonstrated that many stars are surrounded by planets—some of which might contain the right conditions to harbor life. This has only reinforced a question that has been tormenting scientists, philosophers and priests since Antiquity: Are there other inhabited worlds beyond our own? This book analyzes the many ways that humans have argued for and depicted extraterrestrial life over the centuries. The first known texts about the subject date from as early as the 6th century BC. Since that time, countless well-known historical characters like Lucretius, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Cusanus, Bruno, Kepler, Descartes, and Huygens contributed to the debate; here, their lesser known opinions on the subject are studied in detail. It is often difficult for the modern mind to follow the thinking of our ancestors, which can only be understood when placed in the relevant context. The book thus extends its scope to the evolution of ideas about cosmology in general, as well as the culture in which these great thinkers wrote. The research is presented with the author's insights and humor, making this an easy and enjoyable read.
Author | : Steven J. Dick |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1984-06-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521319850 |
This book analyses the debate over extraterrestrial life from Aristotle to Kant.
Author | : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1803 |
Genre | : Plurality of worlds |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Whewell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Lewis |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-02-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631224266 |
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.
Author | : M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520071719 |
Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering thep ossibility of travelers from the moon. "What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?" asks the philosopher. "Why not?" the Marquise replies. "As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me." In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the uinverse. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralit des mondes), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchles clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific discourse. The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves's fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the Conversations for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture.
Author | : Niklas Olsen |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2012-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857452967 |
Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other academic disciplines as represented in the work of philosophers and political thinkers like Hans Georg Gadamer and Carl Schmitt and that of internationally renowned scholars such as Hayden White, Michel Foucault, and Quentin Skinner. An advocate of "grand theory," Koselleck was an inspiration to many scholars and helped move the discipline into new directions (such as conceptual history, theories of historical times and memory) and across disciplinary and national boundaries. He thus achieved a degree of international fame that was unusual for a German historian after 1945. This book not only presents the life and work of a "great thinker" and European intellectual, it also contributes to our understanding of complex theoretical and methodological issues in the cultural sciences and to our knowledge of the history of political, historical, and cultural thought in Germany from the 1950s to the present.
Author | : Pierre Connes |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2020-06-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030414485 |
Modern research has demonstrated that many stars are surrounded by planets—some of which might contain the right conditions to harbor life. This has only reinforced a question that has been tormenting scientists, philosophers and priests since Antiquity: Are there other inhabited worlds beyond our own? This book analyzes the many ways that humans have argued for and depicted extraterrestrial life over the centuries. The first known texts about the subject date from as early as the 6th century BC. Since that time, countless well-known historical characters like Lucretius, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Cusanus, Bruno, Kepler, Descartes, and Huygens contributed to the debate; here, their lesser known opinions on the subject are studied in detail. It is often difficult for the modern mind to follow the thinking of our ancestors, which can only be understood when placed in the relevant context. The book thus extends its scope to the evolution of ideas about cosmology in general, as well as the culture in which these great thinkers wrote. The research is presented with the author's insights and humor, making this an easy and enjoyable read.
Author | : John Glanvill |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2018-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781376939026 |
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