The search for extraterrestrial life : essays on science and technology / edited by P. Day.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Day, P.

Series:

Proceedings of the Royal Institution

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life on other planets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume of selected Evening Discourses from the Royal Institution offers an authoritative and accessible summary of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. The subjects are wide-ranging, from studies of Venus and what they tell us about the Earth, the history and possible future of television, to the interface between art and science - using spectroscopy to analyse the pigments in Medieval manuscripts. Will we be able to build machines with molecular-basedmemories? How do you deal with an historic tower `founded on jelly and slowly inclining to the point at which it is ab

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of plates; List of contributors; The search for extraterrestrial life-and the future of life on Earth; Magellan looks at Venus; Meteorites: messengers from the past; Television beyond the Millenium; Molecular information processing: Will it happen?; 'There or thereabouts'; Pondering on Pisa; An arts/science interface: medieval manuscripts, pigments, and spectroscopy; The Royal Institution

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-92469-2

0-19-150614-1

OCLC:

823719591