MARC Record from Marygrove College

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050 00 $aQB54$b.B37 2006
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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aBasalla, George.
245 10 $aCivilized life in the universe :$bscientists on intelligent extraterrestrials /$cGeorge Basalla.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2006.
300 $axiii, 233 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 209-227) and index.
505 0 $aTrio of ideas -- Life on the Moon -- From the Moon to the planets -- The ascension of Mars -- Percival Lowell: champion of canals -- Mars unveiled -- Carl Sagan: Mars and beyond -- Life in an expanding universe -- The trajectory: CETI to SETI to HRMS -- Mirror worlds.
520 $a"From Aristotle to Stephen Hawking, some of the most prominent Western scientists have had definite perceptions and misperceptions about the existence of civilized life on other planets. Johannes Kepler, who transformed astronomy with his work on the shape of planetary orbits, was quite sure that engineers on the Moon excavated circular pits to provide shelter for lunar inhabitants. Christian Huygens, the most prominent scientist between Galileo and Newton, criticized Kepler's speculations but used probability theory to prove that "planetarians" on other worlds were much like humans and practiced the science of astronomy. Carl Sagan indicted Huygens as a biological chauvinist but failed to see that he was a cultural chauvinist when he assumed that alien life would have a technology similar to ours, though far more advanced. This book traces the influence of one speculation on the next, showing an unbroken but twisting chain of ideas as it passes from ancient to modern times and from science to culture and back again. Throughout, the author interweaves his own view that scientific belief in and search for extraterrestrial civilizations is an impulse that is part anthropomorphic and part secularized-religious."--Jacket.
520 $aAlso includes information on superior beings, CETI (Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Frank D. Drake, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Galileo Galilei, Percival Lowell, Mars, principle of mediocrity, NASA, Carl Sagan, Giovanni Schiaparelli, SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), etc.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
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650 0 $aExtraterrestrial beings$xResearch.
651 0 $aOuter space$xExploration$xPublic opinion.
650 7 $aDiscoveries in geography$xPublic opinion.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01352731
651 7 $aOuter space.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01243437
650 7 $aAußerirdische Intelligenz$2gnd
650 7 $aAußerirdisches Leben$2gnd
650 7 $aAusserirdisches Leben$yGeschichte.$2idsbb
655 4 $aNonfiction.
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