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List of Figures | p. xi |
List of Tables | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Antiquity to Newton | |
The Debate in Antiquity | p. 3 |
From Augustine to the Fifteenth Century | p. 14 |
From Copernicus to Bruno | p. 35 |
Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, and Pascal | p. 51 |
Fontenelle and Huygens | p. 72 |
Newton, Bentley, and Derham | p. 109 |
The Eighteenth Century | |
Astronomers and Extraterrestrials | p. 129 |
Extraterrestrials and the Enlightenment | p. 182 |
From 1800 to 1860 | |
Intensification of the Debate after 1800 | p. 233 |
Before the Whewell Debate | p. 297 |
Whewell's Of the Plurality of Worlds and Responses | p. 333 |
From 1860 to 1915 | |
New Approaches to an Ancient Question | p. 369 |
The Late Nineteeth Century | p. 438 |
The Controversy over the Canals of Mars | p. 470 |
Conclusion | p. 518 |
The History of Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life Research Program | p. 522 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 526 |
Permissions | p. 542 |
Index | p. 544 |
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