Alfred Russell Wallace

ESISTE UN'ALTRA VITA? di Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) Fede vecchia e fede nuova - Dubbii e incertezze - Scienza e religione in conflitto - Felicit o miseria del genere umano - Necessit etiche di un'altra vita - Fantasmi, visioni, avvertimenti, previsioni ecc. - La credenza in Satana e le manifestazioni diaboliche, - Fenomeni di magia - I miracoli non sono fatti scientifici - Lo spiritualismo moderno - Materialismo e spiritualismo - Non c' morte - La realt di una vita futura - Certezza delle prove scientifiche inoppugnabili nel campo fisico ed in quello intellettuale - La levitazione del corpo umano - Fenomeni musicali, chimici, fotografici, di chiaroveggenza o auditivi, di trasfigurazione ecc. solennemente dimostrati ed affermati dalla scienza in merito alle apparizioni degli spiriti - I morti sono vivi ... A che serve lo Spiritismo e che fanno gli spiriti nell'altra vita - Insegnamenti e filosofia del vero Spiritualismo.

Is Mars Habitable? is a classic science essay by the great English biologist, Alfred Russell Wallace. This small volume was commenced as a review article on Professor Percival Lowell's book, Mars and its Canals, with the object of showing that the large amount of new and interesting facts contained in this work did not invalidate the conclusion I had reached in 1902, and stated in my book on Man's Place in the Universe, that Mars was not habitable. But the more complete presentation of the opposite view in the volume now under discussion required a more detailed examination of the various physical problems involved, and as the subject is one of great, popular, as well as scientific interest, I determined to undertake the task.

This is one the first and most important books about 18th century Malaysia and covers a wide array of topics from Malaysian culture and history to nature and wildlife. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Malaysia. A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel—perhaps the greatest. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) deserves equal billing with Charles Darwin for his independently drawn but parallel conclusions on the theory of evolution. Darwin himself called Wallace "generous and noble" and referred favorably to his work in later editions of The Origin of Species. The Malay Archipelago is an extraordinarily accessible book. There is a wealth of detail about pre-modern life in the Indonesian archipelago which Wallace accumulated on over 60 separate journeys spanning 14,000 miles. He was equally fascinated by the exotic peoples, flora and fauna he encountered in his epic travels. A mark of his achievement lies in the size of the collections he bequeathed to British museums—some 125,000 specimens ranging from large mammals to tiny insects, exotic butterflies and splendid birds of paradise. His basic thesis stands to this day: that two separate biological zones border these islands, separated by the deep-water channel now known as the Wallace Line, running between Bali and Lombok, which only a relative handful of species have crossed. The islands east of Bali in effect form a transitional zone where some of the world's strangest creatures are found.