Re: Inhabited Planets

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Look for a book by Michael Crowe at the University of Notre Dame.  It is
a thorough history of the ideas of extraterrrestial life.

joe

On Mon, 28 Jan
2002, Jim Green wrote:

> At 23:11 28 01 2002 , you wrote:
> > My 5' search brought this up: http://astrobulletin.amnh.org/D/3/5/
>
> Yeah.  I did a Google search  on "inhabited planets history"  and a few
> others.   I visited several sites -- including the one cited above -- but
> found none with commentary before 1800.
>
> I was hoping to see that at least by the time of Tycho Brahe there might
> have been speculation re inhabited planets.
>
> It would be very helpful to have a citation re Roman times or Babylonian
> times.
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen

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