Our Place in the Cosmos: The Unfinished Revolution [Import]

Fred Hoyle & Chandra Wickramasinghe

ISBN 10: 0460860844 / ISBN 13: 9780460860840

Verlag: J M Dent Ltd, London, 1993

Beschreibung

A Fair copy in a Good dust wrapper of a former library copy of a title in which ".this book the authors attack the Earth-centric view that life originated in some virus-like form and simply evolved by natural selection. They show that it is overwhelmingly likely that life originated outside the solar system" Wear to dust wrapper with marks remaining from a removed label. Wear to dust wrapper with scratching. Dust wrapper is not price clipped. Sunning along top edge of dust wrapper. Pieces of tape remain along bottom edge of dust wrapper. Maroon red boards have tape marks where the cover was attached. Silver lettering is crisp on the spine. Marks inside both boards and front flyleaf where tape has been removed. Sunning to top edge of pages. Library cataloging notes in pencil at top of Contents page. Wear to page edgings on all sides with spotting to the side. Slight lean to volume. Library stamps in black ink along top page edgings. 190 pages. Rear flyleaf has been torn out along the spine with a small remaining piece. Contents:"Prologue; On the tendency of human societies to depart indefinitely from the objective truth; The Copernican revolution begins; From urine to organic soup; Organic material everywhere; The Unearthly properties of plants and animals; The Beginnings of panspermia; The Unearthly properties of microorganisms; The Entry of microorganisms into the earth's atmosphere; Consistency checks on the theory; The Pathogenic test; The Decisive tests; How much of evolution has really happened; The Subroutine problem; A Summary of considerations necessary for understanding the origin and evolution of life; An Attempted synthesis; Index" Includes 31 illustrations. "Description: viii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.".

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Our Place in the Cosmos: The Unfinished Revolution [Import]
• Verlag: J M Dent Ltd, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0460860844
• ISBN-13: 9780460860840
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Fair
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Science & Technology

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Inhaltsangabe

In this book the authors attack the Earth-centric view that life originated in some virus-like form and simply evolved by natural selection. Arguing from the evidence of virology and epidemiology, they show that it is overwhelmingly likely that life originated outside the solar system, and propose that life-forms from space are constantly arriving to mingle with our own biosphere.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) Sir Fred Hoyle was a famous English astronomer noted primarily for the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stances on other scientific matters-in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio. He has authored hundreds of technical articles, as well as textbooks, popular accounts of science and two autobiographies. In addition to his work as an astronomer, Hoyle was a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-written with his son Geoffrey Hoyle. Hoyle spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and served as its director for a number of years. He was knighted in 1972 and died in Bournemouth, England, after a series of strokes.