Is Mars Habitable A Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "Mars and its Canals," With An Alternative Explanation,

WALLACE, Alfred Russel

Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1907

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. Seller Inventory # 68948

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Title: Is Mars Habitable A Critical Examination of ...
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London
Publication Date: 1907
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition