The Living Universe (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
328
Utgivningsdatum
2005-08-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Rutgers University Press
Medarbetare
Strick, James E.
Illustrationer
28 b/w illustrations, 11 tables
Dimensioner
227 x 153 x 20 mm
Vikt
545 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780813537337

The Living Universe

NASA and the Development of Astrobiology, First Paperback Edition

av Steven J Dick, James E Strick
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-08-01
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The Living Universe is a comprehensive, historically nuanced study of the formation of the new scientific discipline of exobiology and its transformation into astrobiology. Among many other themes, the authors analyze how research on the origin of life became wedded to the search for life on other planets and for extraterrestrial intelligence. Many scientific breakthroughs of the last forty years were either directly supported or indirectly spun off from NASAs exobiology program, including cell symbiosis, the discovery of the Archaea, and the theories of Nuclear Winter and the asteroid extinction of the dinosaurs. Exobiology and astrobiology have generated public fascination, enormous public relations benefits for NASA, andon the flip side of the coinsome of the most heated political wrangling ever seen in government science funding. Dick and Strick providea riveting overview of the search for life throughout the universe, with all of the Earthly complexities of a science-in-the-making and the imperfect humans called scientists. Their book will appeal to biologists, historians and philosophers of science, planetary scientists (including geologists), and an educated general readership interested in the investigation of life on other planets.
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All that has happened in the brief history of astrobiology is but a prelude to some of the most important future discoveries in the history of science and philosophy. This book is the only place where you can find out what really happened in the struggle to make astrobiology respectable. - Frank Drake, senior scientist and director of the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute ""This is a wonderful book by two of the best historians of biology in the business."" - Michael Ruse, author of Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

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Steven J. Dick is the chief historian at NASA and associate editor of the International Journal of Astrobiology. Among his books are Sky and Ocean Joined: The U.S. Naval Observatory, 18302000 , The Biological Universe, and Life on Other Worlds, which has been translated into four languages. James E. Strick is the author of Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation. He is an assistant professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Franklin and Marshall College.

Innehållsförteckning

Before the Space Age The Big Picture: Cosmic Evolution and the Biological Universe From Sputnik to Viking, 1957-1976 Organizing Exobiology: NASA Enters Life Science Exobiology, Planetary Protection, and the Origins of Life Vikings to Mars Broadened Horizons, 1976-2000 The Post-Viking Revolutions The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence The Search for Planetary Systems The Mars Rock Renaissance: From Exobiology to Astrobiology Epilogue: Astrobiology Science: Into the Great Age of Discovery?

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