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Life on other worlds : the 20th-century extraterrestrial life debate
- Title
- Life on other worlds : the 20th-century extraterrestrial life debate / Steven J. Dick.
- Author
- Dick, Steven J.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 290 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-278) and index.
- Contents
- From the physical world to the biological universe: Democritus to Lowell -- Life in the solar system -- Solar systems beyond -- Extraterestrials in literature and the arts: The role of imagination -- The UFO controversy and the extraterrestrial hypothesis -- The origin and evolution of life in the extraterrestrial context --SETI: The search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- The meaning of life: Implicationos of extraterrestrial intelligence -- Summary and conclusion: The biological universe.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-20352
- ISBN
- 0521620120 (hardbound)
- LCCN
- 98020465
- OCLC
- 39093581
- Author
- Dick, Steven J.
- Title
- Life on other worlds : the 20th-century extraterrestrial life debate / Steven J. Dick.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-278) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-20352