Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Kosmos: aliens in ancient Greece
- 2 The world turned upside down: Copernicanism and the voyages of discovery
- 3 In Newton’s train: pluralism and the system of the world
- 4 Extraterrestrials in the early machine age
- 5 After Darwin: The War of the Worlds
- 6 Einstein’s sky: life in the new universe
- 7 Ever since SETI: astrobiology in the space age
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Kosmos: aliens in ancient Greece
- 2 The world turned upside down: Copernicanism and the voyages of discovery
- 3 In Newton’s train: pluralism and the system of the world
- 4 Extraterrestrials in the early machine age
- 5 After Darwin: The War of the Worlds
- 6 Einstein’s sky: life in the new universe
- 7 Ever since SETI: astrobiology in the space age
- Index
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- Alien Life ImaginedCommunicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012