Life's Place in the Cosmos

by Hiram Percy Maxim, 1933

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CONTENTS

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I: OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
  • A general look around
  • The Solar System
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth
  • The Moon
  • Mars
  • Asteroids
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
  • Pluto
  • The Sun
• CHAPTER II: OUR GALAXY
  • The Milky Way
  • Other lights in the sky
  • Life's chances in the Milky Way
  • Mapping the sky
  • Conclusions thus far
• CHAPTER III: OTHER GALAXIES
  • Extra-galactic universes
  • Present views of the cosmos
• CHAPTER IV: LIFE
  • Characteristics of living things
  • The birth of the Solar System
  • The birth of life
• CHAPTER V: EVOLUTION
  • Evolutionary processes
  • The ascent of man
• CHAPTER VI: INTELLIGENCE
  • The senses
  • Reason
  • Instinct
  • Mentality
  • Primitive man
• CHAPTER VII: CONCLUSIONS
  • Life's cosmic possibilities
  • Interstellar communication
  • The case of the inanimate
  • Ourselves
• INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

• "... perched upon his little speck of cosmic dust, peering out upon a hostile cosmos...."
• 1. Haze in the Milky Way resolved into individual stars
• 2. The planets of our Solar System
• 3. Geography of the Moon
• 4. Craters on the surface of the Moon
• 5. Mare Serenitatis and Mare Tranquilitatis
• 6. Mar Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis
• 7. Crater Theophilus
• 8. Crater Copernicus
• 9. The rays visible on the Moon
• 10. Lowell’s globe of Mars
• 11. Drawings of Mars by independent observers
• 12. Seasonal changes on Mars
• 13. Earth as it would probably appear to Martians
• 14. Jupiter
• 15. Saturn
• 16. The Sun
• 17. The Milky Way galaxy as it would appear in edge view
• 18. The Milky Way galaxy as it would appear in face view
• 19. Star cloud in the Milky Way
• 20. Constellation of Orion in the Milky Way
• 21. The mysterious "Horse's Head" in the great nebula in Orion
• 22. Diffuse nebulosity made to radiate by a near-by bright Star
• 23. Gaseous turmoil and chaos in the great nebula in Orion
• 24. The great nebula M31 in Andromeda.
• 25. Central portion of Nebula M31
• 26. The south region of Nebula M31 resolved into individual stars
• 27. Enlarged view of a portion of Nebula M31
• 28. Nebula M33 in Triangulum
• 29. Types of nebulae outside our galaxy
• 30. Edge view of a nebula in a late stage of development
• 31. The "whirlpool nebula"
• 32. Sprial Nebula M101
• 33. Java Man
• 34. Piltdown Man
• 35. Neandertal Man
• 36. Cro-Magnon Man

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