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Civilized Life in the Universe : Scientists on Intelligent Extraterrestrials.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198038351
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Civilized Life in the UniverseDDC classification:
  • 576.8/39
LOC classification:
  • QB54.B37 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- Sources of Quoted Material -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- Sources of Quoted Material -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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