1. Kosmos: aliens in ancient Greece; 2. The world turned upside down: Copernicanism and the voyages of discovery; 3. In Newton's train: pluralism and the system of the world; 4. Extraterrestrials in the early machine age; 5. After Darwin: the war of the worlds; 6. Einstein's sky: life in the new universe; 7. Ever since SETI: astrobiology in the space age; References; Index.

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Compelling account of how ideas of alien life have evolved for general readers, amateur astronomers and undergraduate students studying astrobiology.

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Mark Brake is a freelance academic and is well known for his work in communicating the relationship between space, science and culture. A former Professor of Science Communication at the University of Glamorgan, he founded the world's first undergraduate degree programme in Astrobiology.

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