PLURALITY OF WORLDS - Hitchcock, 1st 1854 EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE PLANETS ALIENS SCIENCE / MEDICINE 5"— oversized engravings due to

5"— oversized engravings due to the age and original book

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PLURALITY OF WORLDS - Hitchcock, 1st 1854 EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE PLANETS ALIENS SCIENCE / MEDICINE 5"— oversized engravings due toTHE PLURALITY OF WORLDS Book Details + Condition: Gould & Lincoln (Boston). First (American) Edition, 1854. By William Whewell. 307 pages, with frontispiece of spiral galaxies. With an Introduction by Edward Hitchcock. Whewell was a noted geologist. The book argues on geological grounds that conjectures about other populated worlds and long periods before humans came to exist are scientifically unsupported. Thus Whewell is using science to defend the