The privileged planet : how our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery /
Gonzalez, Guillermo,1963-
Richards, Jay Wesley,1967-
Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : National Book Network [distributor],
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-416) and index.
Section 1: Our local environment -- Wonderful eclipses -- At home on a data recorder -- Peering down -- Peering up -- The pale blue dot in relief -- Our helpful neighbors -- Section 2: The broader universe -- Star probes -- Our galactic habitat -- Our place in cosmic time -- A universe fine-tuned for life and discovery -- Section 3: Implications -- The revisionist history of the Copernican revolution -- The Copernican principle -- The anthropic disclaimer -- SETI and the unraveling of the Copernican principle -- A universe designed for discovery -- The skeptical rejoinder.
Planets.
Cosmology.
Discoveries in science.