Habitable Planets for Man

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| author = Stephen Dole

| isbn = 0833042270

| pub_date = 1964

| publisher = Blaisdell Publishing Company

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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.{{cite book |author=Stephen H. Dole |authorlink=Stephen Dole |title = Habitable Planets for Man |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-z9AAAAAIAAJ |edition= 2nd |location=New York |publisher=American Elsevier |year=1970 }}

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.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2011/09/13/the-habitable-planets/ |author=Caleb A. Scharf | title = The Habitable Planets | publisher=Life Unbounded, Scientific American |date=September 13, 2011 }}{{cite web |title = Planet Life |publisher=Science Notes, The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/12/science-notes-planet-life.html |date=July 12, 1964}} It includes assessments of 14 stars within 22 light years with a relatively high probability of having habitable planets (a collective probability of 43%).{{cite journal |author=William C. Saslaw |title=Review: Habitable Planets for Man by Stephen H. Dole |journal=American Scientist |volume=52 |issue=4 |date=December 1964 |jstor=27839216 |pages=466A–477A }}{{cite journal |author=Joe W. Tyson |title=Review: Habitable Planets for Man by Stephen H. Dole |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=40 |issue=2 |date=June 1965 |jstor=2819795 |page=229 |doi=10.1086/404644}} Writing in a Scientific American blog in 2011, Caleb Scharf called it "extraordinarily detailed and prescient".