The Planet Girded Suns Updated Edition

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689301353
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planet-girded Suns written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys theories and speculations on the possibility of life on other planets throughout history and discusses current scientific thinking on this subject.

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
ISBN 13 : 9781535449526
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planet-girded Suns written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in extrasolar worlds is not new. From the late 17th century until the end of the 19th, almost all educated people believed that the stars are suns surrounded by inhabited planets--a belief that was expressed not in science fiction, but in serious speculation, both scientific and religious, as well as in poetry. Only during the first half of the 20th century was it thought that life-bearing exoplanets are rare. This is not a science book--rather, it belongs to the category known as History of Ideas. First published by Atheneum in 1974, it tells the story of the rise, fall, and eventual renewal of widespread conviction that we are not alone in the universe. In this updated edition the chapters dealing with modern views have been revised to reflect the progress science has made during the past 40 years, including the actual detection of many planets orbiting other stars. In addition it contains a new Afterword, "Confronting the Universe in the Twenty-First Century," discussing the relevance of past upheavals in human thought to an understanding of the hiatus in space exploration that has followed the Apollo moon landings.

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planet-Girded Suns: Our Forebears' Firm Belief in Inhabited Exoplanets written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in exoplanets--the worlds of other stars--is not new. From the late 17th century until the end of the 19th, almost all educated people believed that the stars are suns surrounded by inhabited planets--a belief that was expressed not in science fiction, but in serious speculation, both scientific and religious, as well as in poetry. Only during the first half of the 20th century was it thought that life-bearing exoplanets are rare. This is not a science book--rather, it belongs to the category known as History of Ideas. First published by Atheneum in 1974, it tells the story of the rise, fall, and eventual renewal of widespread conviction that we are not alone in the universe. In this 2012 updated edition the chapters dealing with modern speculation have been revised to reflect the progress science has made during the past 40 years, including the actual detection of planets orbiting other stars. However, it is not intended to be more than a brief introduction to today's views; its focus is on little-known facts about those of the past. Why should we care what our forebears believed? Now, the question of ET life is a matter for investigation by science. Yet it's significant that most educated people of past centuries were convinced that other inhabited worlds exist, without any scientific evidence whatsoever. This historical fact reveals that human beings have an instinctive sense of kinship with the wider universe and a desire to see the realms that lie beyond this one small planet--and perhaps, eventually, to go there. Our ancestors conceived of such voyages only in a spiritual sense, as occurring after death. But we who have taken our first small steps into space are aware that our descendants may set foot on the worlds of other suns. Just as in the 17th century people were initially upset by the new knowledge that the stars are suns scattered in space rather than lights fixed to a nearby sphere, the growing awareness that Earth is not safely isolated from whatever lies beyond makes many of our contemporaries uneasy. Thus today's predominant feelings about spaceships are ambivalent. Nevertheless, if an impulse toward belief that we are not alone in the universe is indeed an innate characteristic of human beings, as the past spread of belief in inhabited exoplanets suggests, we can be sure that those who follow us will not turn back from becoming spacefarers.

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envoy of the Flame written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ardith Moran is elated by the prospect of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, elated enough to stake her life on her conviction that they exist after the exploratory expedition's leaders turn back. The last thing she expects is to fall in love with an alien, much less for their love to play a key role in saving Earth from tyranny and eventual ruin. As a member of the Anthropological Service, he is willing to make sacrifices and expects her to do the same. Can she, influenced by the legacy of the now-legendary Captain of Estel, convince Earthborn people that they can't retreat from the universe? Or will Earth's authorities succeed in killing her to suppress the evidence only she and her fellow envoys can provide? Please note: The original edition of this book published in June 2021, which has a woman's face on the cover, has been withdrawn. This is a revised edition published in September 2022.

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of the Star trilogy, Book Two. Once Noren gained admission to the City where technology was hidden, he thought he had discovered how to make metal and Machines available to everyone and end the rule of the Scholars. But he soon learned it was not as simple as he had believed. Was it right to let people go on believing in the promises of a Prophecy that might not come true after all?

Author : Engdahl Sylvia (author)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452491639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planet-Girded Suns written by Engdahl Sylvia (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
ISBN 13 : 9780615645179
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Planet-Girded Suns (Updated Edition) written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys theories and speculations on the possibility of life on other planets throughout history and discusses current scientific thinking on this subject.

Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book NASA EP. written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael J. Crowe
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521359863
Total Pages : 708 pages
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Download or read book The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750-1900 written by Michael J. Crowe and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study in English of the international debate that developed between 1750 and 1900 concerning the question of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. Taking a history of ideas approach, the author describes the controversies that-arose over this question and reveals the great extent to which this issue influenced astronomical, philosophical, and religious thought. Professor Crowe shows that the majority of the leading astronomers of the last two centuries participated in this debate and he analyzes how their views interacted with new developments such as Newtonian mechanics, stellar astronomy, Darwinian theory, and astrophysics. This fascinating and critical history shows that the longstanding and widespread belief in extraterrestrial life has for centuries acted to alter major areas of our intellectual life.

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anywhere, Anywhen: Stories of Tomorrow written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended not for SF fans but for teens who don’t ordinarily choose science fiction, this anthology of stories about the future focuses on the timeless aspects of being human. It aims to suggest ideas about the future in a way readers who prefer real-life settings to strangeness will enjoy.This expanded edition of the original hardcover book iincludes stories by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, Carol Farley, Mildred Butler, Robert Pierik, and Rick Robersion in additiion to all of Sylvia Engdahl's short fiction.