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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Plurality of Worlds: A Persistent Theme in Western Civilization
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    Chapter 2 The Twentieth Century History of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Major Themes
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    Chapter 3 From the Physical World to the Biological Universe: Historical Developments Underlying the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
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    Chapter 4 The Biophysical Cosmology: The Place of Bioastronomy in the History of Science
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    Chapter 5 The Biological Universe Revisited
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    Chapter 6 Back to the Future: SETI before the Space Age
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    Chapter 7 The Drake Equation in Context
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    Chapter 8 Cosmic Evolution: History, Culture, and Human Destiny
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    Chapter 9 Consequences of Success in SETI: Lessons from the History of Science
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    Chapter 10 Cultural Aspects of Astrobiology: A Preliminary Reconnaissance at the Turn of the Millennium
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    Chapter 11 The Role of Anthropology in SETI: A Historical View
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    Chapter 12 Bringing Culture to Cosmos: Cultural Evolution, the Postbiological Universe, and SETI
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    Chapter 13 Toward a Constructive Naturalistic Cosmotheology
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    Chapter 14 Astroethics and Cosmocentrism
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    Chapter 15 Should We Message ET, and Is an Asilomar Consultation Process Possible?
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    Chapter 16 Astrobiology and Society: An Overview at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
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    Chapter 17 Exploring the Unknown: 50 Years of NASA History
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    Chapter 18 Exploration, Discovery, and Culture: NASA’s Role in History
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    Chapter 19 Space, Time and Aliens: The Role of Imagination in Outer Space
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    Chapter 20 The Impact of the Hubble Space Telescope
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    Chapter 21 The Decision to Cancel the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) and Its Reversal
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    Chapter 22 Reflections on French-American Relations in Space French-American relations in space , 1957–1975
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    Chapter 23 Measuring the Universe: A Brief History of Astrometry
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    Chapter 24 Pulkovo Observatory and the National Observatory Movement: A Historical Overview
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    Chapter 25 John Quincy Adams, the Smithsonian Bequest and the Founding of the U. S. Naval Observatory
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    Chapter 26 The First Time Balls and the First North American Time Ball
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    Chapter 27 The U. S. Naval Astronomical Expedition of James Melville Gilliss in the Southern Hemisphere, 1849–1852
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    Chapter 28 Measuring the Astronomical Unit: The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1874 and 1882
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    Chapter 29 Geodesy, Time, and the Markowitz Moon Camera Program: An Interwoven International Geophysical Year Story
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    Chapter 30 Pluto, Discovery, and Classification in Astronomy
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    Chapter 31 Astronomy’s Three Kingdoms: A Comprehensive Classification System of Celestial Objects
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    Chapter 32 The Discovery of Polar Motion and Its Importance
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    Chapter 33 Observation and Interpretation of the Leonid Meteors Over the Last Millennium
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    Chapter 34 The Discovery and Exploration of the Moons of Mars
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    Chapter 35 The Universe and Alfred Russel Wallace
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    Chapter 36 Discovering a New Realm of the Universe: Hubble, Galaxies, and Classification
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    Chapter 37 The Philosophy of Astronomy, Cosmology, and Astrobiology: A Preliminary Reconnaissance
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    Chapter 38 Critical Issues in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Astrobiology
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    Chapter 39 Lessons Learned from the Twentieth-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate
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    Chapter 40 Cosmology and Biology: An Entangled Web?
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    Chapter 41 Interstellar Humanity
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    Chapter 42 The Consolations of Astronomy and the Cosmic Perspective Cosmic perspective
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Title
Space, Time, and Aliens
Published by
Springer International Publishing, July 2020
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-41614-0
ISBNs
978-3-03-041613-3, 978-3-03-041614-0
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Dick, Steven J.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 2 15%
Researcher 2 15%
Student > Bachelor 1 8%
Unspecified 1 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 5 38%
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Arts and Humanities 2 15%
Engineering 2 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 8%
Unspecified 1 8%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 5 38%