Habitable Planets for Man
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Habitable Planets For Man is a work by Stephen Dole, first edition published by Blaisdell Publishing Company, A division of Ginn and Company, copyright 1964 by The RAND Corporation. Originally 158 pages, it was republished in a posthumous second edition in 2007, as Planets for Man.[2] The revised edition, 174-page book, contains a detailed scientific study on the nature of worlds that may support life in the universe, the probability of their existence, and ways of finding them,[3][4] including assessments of 14 stars within 22 light years with a relatively high probability of having habitable planets (a collective probability of 43%).[5][6] Writing in a Scientific American blog in 2011, Caleb Scharf called it "extraordinarily detailed and prescient".[3]
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- ↑ https://lccn.loc.gov/64005403
Dole, Stephen H. Habitable planets for man [by] Stephen Dole. [1st ed.]Santa Monica, Calif., Rand Corp., 1964. xi, 158 p. illus. 23 cm. AS36 .R3 R-414Second edition, 2007 with additional material
- ↑ Stephen H. Dole (1970). Habitable Planets for Man (2nd ed.). New York: American Elsevier.
- 1 2 Caleb A. Scharf (September 13, 2011). "The Habitable Planets". Life Unbounded, Scientific American.
- ↑ "Planet Life". Science Notes, The New York Times. July 12, 1964.
- ↑ William C. Saslaw (December 1964). "Review: Habitable Planets for Man by Stephen H. Dole". American Scientist. 52 (4): 466A&ndash, 477A. JSTOR 27839216.
- ↑ Joe W. Tyson (June 1965). "Review: Habitable Planets for Man by Stephen H. Dole". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 40 (2): 229. doi:10.1086/404644. JSTOR 2819795.