William Whewell, the Plurality of Worlds, and the Modern Solar System
Astronomers of the first half of the nineteenth century viewed our solar system entirely differently from the way twentieth-century astronomers viewed it. In the earlier period the dominant image was of a set of planets and moons, both of which kinds of bodies were inhabited by intelligent beings co...
| Subtitles: | Exoplanets and astrotheology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2016]
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Zygon
Year: 2016, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 431-449 |
| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation
B solar system B Astrobiology B plurality of worlds B principle of plenitude B Redemption B Christianity B William Whewell B John Herschel |
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