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This entry describes the broad diversity of assumptions and scientific works regarding the search for life in the solar system from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
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Dick SJ (1982) Plurality of Worlds – the origins of the extraterrestrial life debate from Democritus to Kant. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Dick SJ (1996) The biological universe – the twenthieth century extraterrestrial life debate and the limits of science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
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Raulin-Cerceau, F. (2011). Life in the Solar System (History). In: Gargaud, M., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11274-4_1409
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