Michael J. Crowe. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750–1900: the Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xix + 680. ISBN 0-521-26305-0. £40.00 [Book Review]

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