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Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds written by M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.

Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering thep ossibility of travelers from the moon. "What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?" asks the philosopher. "Why not?" the Marquise replies. "As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me." In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the uinverse. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralit des mondes), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchles clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific discourse. The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves's fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the Conversations for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture.

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1803

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1803 with Plurality of worlds categories.

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : BERNARD DE. FONTENELLE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds written by BERNARD DE. FONTENELLE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.

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Author : M. de Fontenelle
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2022-01-17

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds written by M. de Fontenelle and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-17 with Fiction categories.

De Fontenelle was a seventeenth-century writer and astronomer. This is a translation of his very famous and influential work. The conversations of the title are between a knowledgeable man and a woman who has no knowledge of astronomy. The intention of the book was to enable women to learn about the planets and the possibility that life (even if not human life) might exist on other planets.

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Author : Bernard de Fontenelle
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-03-17

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds Classic Reprint written by Bernard de Fontenelle and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-17 with Science categories.

Excerpt from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Whenever I have entered into conversation with any sensible woman on astronomy, I-have always found that she had read Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds; au'd that his book had excited her. Curiosity on the subject. As it has been so much read already, it must continue to engage at tention: I therefore thought it would be useful to point out its faults; to add some observations, without which the reader would be led into error with respect to the vor tices; to make known the late discoveries; and to shew what numbers, before our author, had written on the plu rality of worlds. But I have made no alterations in the text; the reputation of Fontenelle renders 'him respectable, even in his mistakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds written by Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with SCIENCE categories.

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1715

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1817

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-11

When Bernard de Fontenelle published the first edition of his Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes in 1686, it was an immediate success. In an age when women, even those from the richest and most distinguished families, received little or no formal education, it offered an entertaining and accessible introduction to astronomy and some of the burning topics of the day. Does the earth really go around the sun? Are there other inhabited planets out there? If so, are the inhabitants like us or quite different? Is the moon itself inhabited? Is even the sun inhabited? Are there volcanoes on the moon? How hot is mercury? How long is a Venusian day? Will flying machines one day take us to the moon? Providing new notes, some illustrations and an introduction, this new Tiger of the Stripe edition is based on the 1808 edition of Elizabeth Gunning's translation, retaining the charm which was so essential for the book's success. Miss Gunning, a beautiful and talented novelist with a rather racy personal life, drew on an annotated French edition by the distinguished French astronomer, Jerome de Lalande. This edition thus offers an interesting accretion of ideas, ranging from Fontenelle's 1686 edition and later revisions, Lalande's (sometimes rather critical) comments, Gunning's appropriately flowery translation, and our own explanations for the modern reader. It is, without doubt, a little gem.

Conversations On The Plurality Of Worlds

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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1816

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