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Verlag: TREDITION CLASSICS, 2011
ISBN 10: 3842450869ISBN 13: 9783842450868
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. 84 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Classical Prints 19 O, 2022
ISBN 10: 9356759146ISBN 13: 9789356759145
Anbieter: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
Verlag: London: Macmillan, 1907
Anbieter: Dan Wyman Books, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Hardcover. 1st edition. Small 8vo. original green publisher's cloth with gilt lettered spine. xii, 110, [2 ads.] pages. Includes frontis & 1 plate. A contemporary response to the theories of Lowell on the likelihood of life on Mars and theories about supposed canals on its surface. Written in refutation to Percival Lowell's "Mars and Its Canals" (1906), this work argues that life, as we know it, cannot exist elsewhere in the universe. Wallace (1823-1913) was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently came up with the idea of 'Natural Selection.' Charles H. Smith wrote about this work, "For many years one of Wallace's least remembered books, Is Mars Habitable? is increasingly being recognized as one of the first examples of the proper application of the scientific method to the study of extraterrestrial atmospheres and geography--that is, as one of the pioneer works in the field of exobiology." Offset darkening to blank front endpaper (from a laid in paper), otherwise gorgeous with very litle wear, just the faintest shelf wear at the corners. A beautiful copy of this important work, Very Good+ Condition. (MX-38-3).
Verlag: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1907
Anbieter: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
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Full Description: WALLACE, Alfred Russel. Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," With An Alternative Explanation, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. First Edition. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 133 mm). xii, 110, [2, publisher's advertisements] pp. With two engraved plates, including frontispiece. Half-title. Publisher's full green cloth. Front board ruled in gilt and blind. With gilt round central device, including the title and the author's monogram. Back board ruled in blind. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Cream coated endpapers. Some very minor rubbing to spine extremities, and a nearly invisible puckering to the cloth on front board. Otherwise near fine. "In 1900 [Wallace] brought out the two-volume collection of his essays Studies Scientific and Social, and three years later the study Man's Place in the Universe, in which he created a stir by arguing for the soleness of advanced life on earth and its centrality of location in the universe (then thought to extend no further than our own galaxy). Some of the arguments used in the latter work were applied in 1907 to the more special case of Mars in an attempt (Is Mars Habitable?) to debunk Percival Lowell's theory that the red planet was inhabited. In these two works Wallace fully anticipated the anthropic principle and all but founded another study for which he has been given but little credit: exobiology." (Oxford DNB). HBS 68948. $1,250.