Extraterrestrial Life Debate, Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book

INDEX

INDEX 544 Adam and/or Eve, 200, 225, 229, 234, 330, 331, 341, 468 Adams, John, 204, 207–8 Addison, Joseph, 133 Albertus Magnus, 18 American Philosophical Society, 208 analogy argument for extraterrestrial life from, 25, 53, 73, 87, 91, 95, 117–18, 140, 164, 172–73, 176, 210, 248–50, 251, 260, 301, 303, 342, 390–91, 395, 410, 417–18 logic of the argument from, 131, 176, 342, 390, 392–93 Anaxagoras, 24 André, Charles, 515 angels, 258, 325–26 Antoniadi, Eugène Michael, 492, 501, 506, 507–17, 520 Aquinas, Thomas. See Thomas Aquinas Arago, François, 413 Archytas, 88 Aristotle (and/or Aristotelianism), 8–13, 17–20, 22–26, 39, 43, 65, 409, 518 Arouet, François-Marie. See Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) asteroids, advocate of life on: T. Dick, 270 astrology, 60 Athanasius, 21n17 atheism, 318 and Epicureanism, 5, 7–8, 118 atomism, 3–8, 13, 19–20, 65, 91, 214 Augustine of Hippo, 16–17, 18, 182, 520 Baconian philosophy, 243, 301, 406 Bailey, Philip James, 310 Ball, Robert S., 427 Basalla, George, 525 Basil, 21n17 Bates, Joseph, 329–30 Baumer, Franklin L., 182–83 Becker, Carl, 182–83, 520 Bell, Charles, 300 Bentley, Richard, 115–20, 395n24 Bevis, John, 222 Bible, 14, 15, 63, 89, 118, 200, 201, 211, 215, 242–59 passim, 274, 319–24, 335, 364–65, 439, 479 cited in opposition to extraterrestrial life by: Thomas Aquinas, 19 cited in support of extraterrestrial life by: Brewster, 356–57; T. Dick, 268 as communicated to extraterrestrials, 220 idea of an alien version, 201, 450 Blunt, Edmund, 283, 288 Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 196, 201 Bouguer, Pierre, 263 Boyle, Robert, 115 Bradley, James, 68 Brahe, Tycho, 57, 61, 68, 87, 114 Brewster, David, 279, 355–57, 361–62, 366, 387, 389, 391–93, 399–400 Bridgewater, Eighth Earl of (Francis Henry Egerton), 300 Bridgewater Treatises, 300, 388 Bronté, Emily, 261 Browning, Robert M., 441 Bruce, Edmund, 58 Bruno, Giordano, 34, 37–49, 51–52, 56, 58–59, 62, 64–65, 87, 107, 439 Buckland, William, 300 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 302, 369 Buridan, John, 21 Byron, Lord (George Gordon), 202, 233, 239n6, 292 Calvinism, 207–8, 318 Cambridge University, 115, 198, 202, 308–9, 385 plurality of worlds taught or discussed at, 86, 300–301, 333 Campbell, William Wallace, 484, 509 canals of Mars, 470–517 passim discovery of system of, 395, 470, 472 nomenclature for, 470, 472, 494 optical or psychological theories of, 479–81, 492–517 passim origin of the term, 470–72 photographs of, 513–14 physical theories of, 476–78, 481, 484, 485, 490, 506 resolved into fine detail, system of, 500, 509–13 See also gemination (or doubling) of Martian canals; Mars Capoano, Alessandro, 52 Carlyle, Thomas, 240 Cassini, J., 92 causality, final, 119, 148, 301–2, 351, 413, 418 Cerulli, Vincenzo, 500–501, 509, 514–15 chain of being, great, 114, 118, 145, 148, 185, 186, 197, 205–7, 208, 210, 211, 215, 221–24, 228–29, 261, 524 Chalmers, Thomas, 240–59, 260–61, 296, 300, 335–36, 338–40, 342, 355, 387, 399–400 Chambers, Robert, 369 Chanut, Pierre, 67 chemical composition, homogeneity throughout the universe, 369–71, 412n29 Christ, Jesus, 26–27, 37, 62, 208, 220–21, 229, 234, 245, 256–59, 310–11, 318–24 passim, 325–27, 330–32, 337–38, 356, 357, 362, 445–46, 448, 449–50, 463, 467 Christianity, xix, 14, 68, 115, 207–8, 210, 211, 221, 233–39, 241, 242–59 passim, 318–24 passim, 333–66 passim, 439, 463, 469, 523. i n d e x 545 Christianity (cont.) See also redemption and incarnation, Christian doctrines of Chrysostom, John, 21n17 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, xvi, 324–28 Church of the New Jerusalem, xvi, 215–21 Clark, Jerome, 525 Clifford, William Kingdon, 441–42 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 196, 202, 233–34 Comas Solá, José, 509 combination of improbabilities argument against extraterrestrials, 430–36 comets, 112, 114–15, 202, 238–39 advocates of life on: Kant, 143; Lambert, 153–60, 169; Rittenhouse, 213; Shelley, 236 satellites of, 159 seasons on, 153 communication with extraterrestrials, 216–21 Comte, Auguste, 311–18, 413 Condemnation of 1277, 21 Conduitt, John, 113, 207 Conway Morris, Simon, 428 Copernican Principle, 65, 67, 94–98, 101, 103, 337–38, 411, 413–14, 424, 524 Copernican Revolution, 36–37, 53, 324 Copernicus, Nicholas, 35–37...