On the First Anthropic Argument in Astrobiology

Details On the First Anthropic Argument in Astrobiology On the First Anthropic Argument in Astrobiology

2003-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306185v1

Earth Moon Planets 91 (2002) 243-254

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 2 figures, submitted to "Earth, Moon, and Planets"

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We consider the little-known anthropic argument of Fontenelle dealing with the nature of cometary orbits, given a year before the publication of Newton's Principia. This is particularly interesting in view of the rapid development of the recently resurgent theories of cometary catastrophism and their role in the modern astrobiological debates, for instance in the "rare Earth" hypothesis of Ward and Brownlee.

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