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The Last Frontier
Karl S. Guthke
其他書名
Imagining Other Worlds from the Copernican Reolution to Modern Science Fiction
出版DIANE Publishing Company, 1990-11
主題Science / HistoryScience / Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN07567614769780756761479
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_YftAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book, originally published in Germany in 1983, is a brilliant and detailed thematic study of one of the most haunting problems mankind has ever considered: Are we alone in the universe? The book traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the period from the 17th to the 20th centuries and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition. An engaging, lucid adventure in the history of ideas.