From Influence to Inhabitation The Transformation of Astrobiology in
This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cosmological view of the existence of a plurality of worlds in the universe, allowing the possibil
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James E. Christie
From Influence to Inhabitation The Transformation of Astrobiology in the Early Modern Period
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FROM INFLUENCE TO INHABITATION James E. Christie
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James E. Christie
From Influence to Inhabitation The Transformation of Astrobiology in the Early Modern Period
James E. Christie Sydney, Australia
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To my parents, John and Kathryn
Preface
It is often said that ‘Are we alone in the universe?’ is one of humanity’s oldest and most profound questions. The problem with this statement, as a student of intellectual history might point out, is that the concepts of ‘we’, ‘alone’ and ‘universe’ a
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