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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... image could . But it's not just the repre- sentation of a planet . It's the embodiment of a process , a process that forged links between far - off Mars and the cartographers ' draw- ing board point by point , feature by feature . 4 ...
... images . Links that ran through the eyes and minds and hands of the people who assembled the pictures produced by that great scientific adventure into a world they could see in their minds and draw on the paper in front of them , a ...
... images , everything is flipped around : Greece is south of Libya , Burma west of Arabia . What's more , Schiaparelli's geography was often more allusive than topographical . His planet is 360 ° of free association . Thus Solis Lacus is ...
... image to herself as a way of stressing her disassociation from the ways of the world around her ; the wonder- fully innocent yet artfully contrived metaphors of the poems in Craig Raine's A Martian Sends a Postcard Home led to a whole ...
... image of a blue - white planet floating in space , or hanging over the deadly deserts of the moon , reinforces the Earth's isolation and specialness . And it is this excep- tionalism that drives the current scientific thirst for finding ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |