The Gaia hypothesis : science on a pagan planet
Ruse, Michael2013
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In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Golding, and then in an extensive collaboration with the American scientist Lynn Margulis. In the early 1970s, he finally went public with the Gaia hypothesis, the idea that everything happens for an end: the good of planet Earth. Lovelock and Margulis were scorned by professional scientists, but the general public enthusiastically embraced Lovelock and his hypothesis. People joined Gaia groups; churches had Gaia services, sometimes with new music written especially for the occasion. There was a Gaia atlas, Gaia gardening, Gaia herbs, Gaia retreats, Gaia networking, and much more. And the range of enthusiasts was—and still is—broad.
Main title:
The Gaia hypothesis : science on a pagan planet / Michael Ruse.
Author:
Imprint:
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Collation:
xiv, 251 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Gaia hypothesis -- The paradox -- The pagan planet -- Mechanism -- Organicism -- Hylozoism -- Gaia revisited -- Understanding.
ISBN:
9780226731704 (cloth alk paper)
Dewey class:
571
LC class:
QH331
Language:
English
BRN:
75702
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