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Genre/Form: | Voyages, Imaginary |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Brake |
ISBN: | 9780521491297 0521491290 |
OCLC Number: | 803465360 |
Description: | 276 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Kosmos : aliens in ancient Greece -- The world turned upside down : Copernicanism and the voyages of discovery -- In Newton's train : pluralism and the system of the world -- Extraterrestrials in the early machine age -- After Darwin : "The war of the worlds" -- Einstein's sky : life in the new universe -- Ever since SETI : astrobiology in the space age. |
Responsibility: | Mark Brake. |
Abstract:
Compelling account of how ideas of alien life have evolved for general readers, amateur astronomers and undergraduate students studying astrobiology.
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