From Influence to Inhabitation The Transformation of Astrobiology in the Early Modern Period /

• Main Author: Christie, James E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 228
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy.; Astrobiology.; Europe-History-1492-.; Intellectual life-History.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Intellectual Studies.

This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cosmological view of the existence of a plurality of worlds in the universe, allowing the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Founded in the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Astrology, Extraterrestrial Life and Astrobiology
• 2. Celestial Influence as an Aid to Pluralism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
• 3. William Gilbert: Magnetism as Astrological Influence, and the Unification of the Terrestrial and Celestial Realms
• 4. Johannes Kepler: A New Astronomy, Astrological Harmonies and Living Creatures
• 5. Influence and/or Inhabitation: The Celestial Bodies between Kepler and Newton
• 6. Influence and Inhabitation Opposed
• 7. Conclusion.