Dr. Martin published two books in his lifetime.
Weeks before his death, he had nearly completed his last work, which he called Lively Planet.
We only have the unedited and nearly finished version.
All three are available for download here.
Lively Planet (2007, unedited / unfinished)
by Louis C. Martin, MD
On our lively planet, things got off to a start with the Big Bang. The universe had a finite beginning, and time and space came into existence. Prior to that … well, there wasn’t any prior to that.
The existence we know had a beginning, to which it is corollary that there was nothing prior. Life, which entails a high level of chemical and physiological complexity, happened only slowly after millions and millions of years. Finally, no one was present to watch it, but animals and plants appeared gradually on the planet, with evolution occurring at last to the family of hominids, and, latterly, to the emergence of man, particularly through Homo Erectus over the last million years.
Homo sapiens, our own species, appeared only over the last couple of hundred thousand years, with a meteoric development of culture over the last few thousands of years, once the process got going. We continue to strive to understand the detail.
God and Atom (2004)
by Louis C. Martin, MD
We are now in a cultural position where it is important to merge our views. The universe is one, though our views of it may differ. Our beliefs need to be consistent with our empirical knowledge.
God and Atom probes the evolution of man, and the evolution of culture.
We (the race) developed religious and philosophical views first, then empirical science. In both disciplines, we have been trying to understand our universe.
Man at Millennium (1972)
by Louis C. Martin, MD
From the imaginative fictionalization of the opening to the fascinating speculation of the final pages, Man at Millennium makes thought-provoking reading. It presents what is essentially a series of essays on man and his relationship with both the universe and himself.
The book examines The human experience – what it means to be man at this point in time, what it feels like to be 20th century man, what man has come from where he is going and what lies in between.
