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Richard Anthony Proctor
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The English astronomer Richard A. Proctor was already a well-known
populariser of science when he published Other Worlds Than Ours in
1870, joining a ferocious debate about the possibility of life on
other planets in which Whewell (1853) and Brewster (1854) had also
participated. Taking his cue from the seventeenth-century French
astronomer Fontenelle's classic book The Plurality of Worlds,
Proctor discusses Victorian discoveries about the solar system and
describes what was then known about each of the planets. He
evaluates the habitability of Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and
Saturn in the light of his belief in the possibility of
extraterrestrial life. The text includes many illustrations of the
planets, a spectacular map of Mars, and theoretical views of the
Milky Way. Influenced by Darwin, Proctor had a teleological view of
the universe and believed that eventually the cosmos would be
filled with living things.
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