TY - BOOK ID - 32224862 TI - Plurality of worlds : the origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant PY - 1984 SN - 0521319854 0521243084 PB - Cambridge : ©1982 Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Plurality of worlds KW - Life on other planets KW - Pluralité des mondes KW - Vie extraterrestre KW - Worlds, Plurality of KW - Astronomy KW - Cosmology KW - Planets KW - Stars KW - Extraterrestrial life KW - Fermi's paradox KW - Plurality of worlds. KW - Life on other planets. KW - Extraterrestrial anthropology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32224862 AB - 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, this 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. ER -