Habitable Planets for Man
Book by Stephen Dole
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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.[1]
First edition cover | |
| Author | Stephen Dole |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Blaisdell Publishing Company |
Publication date | 1964 |
| ISBN | 0833042270 |
The revised edition, 174 pages, 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.[2][3] It includes assessments of 14 stars within 22 light years with a relatively high probability of having habitable planets (a collective probability of 43%).[4][5] Writing in a Scientific American blog in 2011, Caleb Scharf called it "extraordinarily detailed and prescient".[2]