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Starstruck : cosmic visions in science, religion, and folklore / Albert A. Harrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Albert A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stars--Mythology.
- Stars.
- Stars--Folklore.
- Cosmology--Folklore.
- Cosmology.
- Outer space--Folklore.
- Outer space.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 231 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We live in an era of exploding scientific knowledge about the universe, and our place and future within it.Much of this new knowledge conflicts with earlier wisdom, and some has frightening implications.
- Contents:
- Thinking big
- Frontier science
- Eyes on the universe
- The extraterrestrial hypothesis
- Of gods and spacemen
- Visitor experiences
- Tricksters
- Matters of life and death
- Preposterous or prudent?
- Star wars.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84545-286-0
- OCLC:
- 1145650932
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