Huygens Christiaan: Kosmoteoros

Name: Kosmoteoros
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Author: Huygens Christiaan

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Author: Huygens Christiaan
Publisher: Heliks
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 81653

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Kosmoteoros

Huygens Christiaan

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Christiaan Huygens: Kosmoteros

What do they eat, where do they sail and are they cold? What creatures inhabit the other planets of the solar system? Three hundred years ago, the Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer, engineer and inventor, Christian Huygens (1629 – 1695), one of the pioneers of modern science, applied the scientific method in an attempt to discover whether life exists outside the Earth. Thus Kosmoteoros was born.

Written in clear, sharp language, with considerations that go far beyond the basic theme, Kosmoteoros is the last work of a great man who represents the link between medieval knowledge and the new age. The epoch in which Huygens creates, between Galileo and Newton, is marked by a new view of nature research, based on experiment in the spirit of Bacon's program and opposed to the ruling religious dogmas.
Proponents of the new science were persecuted, imprisoned or excommunicated, numerous books were banned, but despite this, an increasing number of thinkers accepted a new approach to the study of nature. Huygens is one of the most prolific among them.

Kosmoteoros combines philosophy, theology and astronomy and represents Huygens' excursion into the field we know today as astrobiology. The modern reader will feel more like in science fiction and less like in science, but will find in the book a handful of exciting logic games with which Huygens tries to fathom the unknown. Kosmoteoros is also an authentic testimony of a dramatic epoch in the development of human thought and the mysterious paths it took.

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