Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a WorldPicador, 4. 10. 2002. - 304 страница Who are the extraordinary individuals that will take us on the next great space race, the next great human endeavor, our exploration and colonization of the planet Mars? And more importantly, how are they doing it? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton explores the peculiar and fascinating world of the new generation of explorers: geologists, scientists, astrophysicists and dreamers. Morton shows us the complex and beguiling role that mapping will play in our understanding of the red planet, and more deeply, what it means for humans to envision such heroic landscapes. Charting a path from the 19th century visionaries to the spy-satellite pioneers to the science fiction writers and the arctic explorers -- till now, to the people are taking us there -- Morton unveils the central place that Mars has occupied in the human imagination, and what it will mean to realize these dreams. |
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... astronomers looking at it with their tel- escopes , measuring all the qualities of light reflected from its sur- face , seeing seasons and imagining civilizations . Or to the writers inspired by those astronomical visions : H. G. Wells ...
... Astronomer Royal , the man who had that great transit circle built - that the Greenwich meridian was formally adopted by the rest of the world . With worldwide navigation a com- monplace , and with telecommunications making almost ...
... astronomers , with a few science fiction writers thrown in for spice . In the decades since the craters of Mars were first discovered by space probes , hundreds of astronomers have been thus immortalized . But none of them has a crater ...
... astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann von Mädler , famous now mostly for their maps of the moon , turned their telescope in Berlin's Tiergarten to Mars . The planet had been observed before . Its polar caps were known , and so was its ...
... astronomers followed him in the matter of the meridian while eagerly making good his oversight in the matter of names . Father Angelo Secchi , a Jesuit at the Vatican observatory , turned the light and dark patches into continents and ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |