Book ID: CBB000050151

The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell (1986)

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Crowe, Michael J. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1986
Physical Details: xix + 680 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

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Review Gabbey, A. (1990) Review of "The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 90-91). unapi

Review Mauskopf, S.H. (1988) Review of "The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell". American Historical Review (pp. 1020-21). unapi

Review Dick, S.J. (1987) Review of "The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 257-59). unapi

Review Weston, A. (1988) Review of "The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell". Quarterly Review of Biology (p. 59). unapi

Review Schaffer, S. (1987) Review of "The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 485-86). unapi

Review Miller, D.P. (1987) Review of "The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 80-82). unapi

Review Beck, L.W. (1988) Review of "The extraterrestrial life debate, 1750-1900: The idea of a plurality of worlds from Kant to Lowell". Journal of the History of Philosophy (pp. 324-26). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beattie, James
Bourguet, Marie-Noëlle
Brinkmann, Richard
Kapoor, R. C.
Lieburg, Mart J. van
MacDougall, Robert Duncan
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
American Quarterly
Annales, économies, sociétés, civilisations
British Journal for the History of Science
Gewina
Publishers
Il Poligrafo
Manchester University Press
Metzler
Rudolf Steiner Press
Concepts
Science
Astronomical observatories
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Vaccines; vaccination
Public health
People
Murphy, Lois Barclay
Pickering, Edward Charles
Simond, Paul Louis
Yersin, Alexandre Émile John
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Léveillé, Hector
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
India
Africa
Great Britain
Paris (France)
Australia
Europe
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory Greenwich
East India Company (English)
British Admiralty
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