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Author Brake, Mark.

Title Alien life imagined : communicating the science and culture of Astrobiology / Mark Brake
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents Kosmos : aliens in ancient Greece : Kosmos / Mark Brake -- The world turned upside down : Copernicanism and the voyages of discovery : voyages / Mark Brake -- In Newton's train : pluralism and the system of the world : Newton's train / Mark Brake -- Extraterrestrials in the early machine age / Mark Brake -- After Darwin : the War of the worlds : Darwin -- WOTW / Mark Brake -- Einstein's sky : life in the new universe : Einstein's sky / Mark Brake -- Ever since SETI : astrobiology in the Space Age / Mark Brake
Summary Compelling account of how ideas of alien life have evolved for general readers, amateur astronomers and undergraduate students studying astrobiology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Unidentified flying object literature.
Unidentified flying objects.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Life on other planets.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
Life on other planets
Unidentified flying object literature
Unidentified flying objects
Voyages, Imaginary
Genre/Form Voyages, Imaginary.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012022018
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