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Beholding the cosmos : Huygens’ Cosmotheoros and the latter-day Copernicans
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Van Den Berg, Hugo (2019) Beholding the cosmos : Huygens’ Cosmotheoros and the latter-day Copernicans. Science Progress, 102 (3). pp. 249-260. doi:10.1177/0036850419872918 ISSN 0036-8504.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0036850419872918
Abstract
Christiaan Huygens, a founding father of modern physics and astronomy, speculated on extraterrestrial life toward the end of his life. Some of his speculations now seem quaint or naïve, but in other respects, Huygens was admirably enlightened. Huygens’ thought was permeated by Copernicanism and the associated way of thinking that may be termed the principle of indifference. Modern descendants of this statistical mode of generating speculations has given rise to speculations that are, in their own way, as naïve and untenable as Huygens’ argument for hemp on Jupiter.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software Q Science > QB Astronomy |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695, Life on other planets , Statistics | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Science Progress | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Science Reviews 2000 Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0036-8504 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 September 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 102 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 249-260 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0036850419872918 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 August 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 September 2019 | ||||||||
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