Re: Inhabited Planets

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

My 5' search brought this up:  http://astrobulletin.amnh.org/D/3/5/


                                                     Is anybody home?
Because they appeared hazy, many asteroids were thought by early
astronomers
                                                     to have Earth-like
atmospheres. The gravity of asteroids, however, was known to be much
weaker than
                                                     Earth's - leading
astronomers to imagine that asteroids were inhabited by strange beasts.
"On such
                                                     planets giants may
exist," one astronomer speculated in 1865. "And those enormous animals
which
                                                     here require the
buoyant power of water to counteract their weight, may there inhabit the
land."


Skip the medieval period  the angels lived there,  so either recent or
the Greeks/Romans/Egyptians

I leave it to someone whop knows.

bc

P.s.  Only reference in:
http://calspace.ucsd.edu/marsnow/library/exploration_strategy.html
to inhabited:
                                       1777-1783
                                       Sir William Herschel (1738 -
1822), the British Royal Astronomer, studied Mars with telescopes he
built himself. Herschel believed that all the planets were inhabited and
even that there
                                       were intelligent beings living in
a cool area under the surface of the sun.


Jim Green wrote:

> When did the idea of other inhabited planets begin?
>
> Recently?  Aristotle?  Newton?  Egyptians?  Chinese?  Babylonians?
> Pre-history?
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen