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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 never examined in this context, the 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.Dick, Steven J. is the author of 'Plurality of Worlds: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant', published 1982 under ISBN 9780521243087 and ISBN 0521243084.
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