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History of the Plurality of Worlds

Author : Pierre Connes
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030414485
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book History of the Plurality of Worlds written by Pierre Connes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Plurality of Worlds

Author : William Whewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Plurality of Worlds written by William Whewell and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plurality of Words

Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521319850
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Plurality of Words written by Steven J. Dick and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-06-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the debate over extraterrestrial life from Aristotle to Kant.

The Plurality of Worlds

Author : William Whewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Download or read book The Plurality of Worlds written by William Whewell and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Plurality of Worlds

Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631224266
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book On the Plurality of Worlds written by David Lewis and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

History in the Plural

Author : Niklas Olsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452967
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book History in the Plural written by Niklas Olsen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Author : M. de Fontenelle
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Fontenelle was a seventeenth-century writer and astronomer. This is a translation of his very famous and influential work. The conversations of the title are between a knowledgeable man and a woman who has no knowledge of astronomy. The intention of the book was to enable women to learn about the planets and the possibility that life (even if not human life) might exist on other planets.

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Author : M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520071719
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 pluralité 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.

A Plurality of Worlds

Author : John Glanvill
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376939026
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book A Plurality of Worlds written by John Glanvill and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Celestial Worlds Discovered, Etc

Author : Christiaan Huygens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Celestial Worlds Discovered, Etc written by Christiaan Huygens and published by . This book was released on 1698 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Plurality of Worlds

Author : William Whewell
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781298923158
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Plurality of Worlds written by William Whewell and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318555611
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

The Plurality of Worlds

Author : William Whewell
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ISBN 13 : 9789357924139
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Plurality of Worlds written by William Whewell and published by . This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plurality of Worlds, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Plurality of Worlds

Author : Robert Knight
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781458929877
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Plurality of Worlds written by Robert Knight and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: ...and must require to be more dense than nebular matter in order to be visible at all by its own light. 35. Thus we appear to have good reason to believe that nebulae are vast masses of incoherent or gaseous matter, of immense tenuity, diffused in forms more or less irregular, but all of them destitute of any regular system of solid moving bodies. We seem, therefore, to have made it certain that these celestial objects at least are not inhabited. No speculators have been bold enough to place inhabitants in a comet; except, indeed, some persons who have imagined that such a Pg 162 habitation, carrying its inmates alternately into the close vicinity of the sun's surface, and far beyond the orbit of Uranus, and thus exposing them to the fierce extremes of heat and cold, might be the seat of penal inflictions on those who had deserved punishment by acts done in their life on one of the planets. But even to give coherence to this wild imagination, we must further suppose that the tenants of such prison-houses, though still sensible to human suffering from extreme heat and cold, have bodies of the same vaporous and unsubstantial character as the vehicle in which they are thus carried about the system; for no frame of solid structure could be sustained by the incoherent and varying volume of a comet. And probably, to people the nebulae with such thin and fiery forms, is a mode of providing them with population, that the most ardent advocates of the plurality of worlds are not prepared to adopt. 36. So far then as the Nebulae are concerned, the improbability of their being inhabited, appears to mount to the highest point that can be conceived. We may, by the indulgence of fancy, people the summer-clouds, or the beams of the aurora borealis, with living beings, of the same kind of substance as those bright appearances themselves; and in doing so, we are not making any bolder assumption than we are, when we stock the Nebulae with inhabitants, and call them i

A Week's Conversation on the Plurality of Worlds

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353144101
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book A Week's Conversation on the Plurality of Worlds written by Aphra Behn and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Plurality and Ambiguity

Author : David Tracy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226811263
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Plurality and Ambiguity written by David Tracy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-06-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plurality and Ambiguity, David Tracy lays the philosophical groundwork for a practical application of hermeneutics, while constructing an innovative model of theological interpretation developed out of the notions of conversation and argument. He concludes with an appraisal of the religious significance of hope in an age of radically different voices and constantly shifting meanings.