@ProfAbelMendez Gavriil Tikhov, who was one of the first scientists to use the word “astrobiology,” coined the word “astrobotany” in 1945. In 1947 he founded a Department of Astrobotany ... where students, biologists, botanists, and physicists joined to st
@kevinkhu Gavriil Tikhov, who was one of the first scientists to use the word “astrobiology,” coined the word “astrobotany” in 1945. In 1947 he founded a Department of Astrobotany ... where students, biologists, botanists, and physicists joined to study th
@HeavyFe_H There is a RAS article and book that at least takes you back to Greece https://t.co/OzlYVqt9oj https://t.co/CzaXHFuIpC My hunch is that there may be references in philosophy from the early Islamic schools. But it would be difficult to parse it