Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a WorldPicador, 2002 M10 4 - 304 páginas 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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... interest in theory or discovery but a profound concern for order , which meant that the production of tables for the Admiralty ( the core of the observatory's job ) was accomplished with mechanical accuracy . He looked at the heavens ...
... interest in the place are welcomed onto the planet Mars , at least in name . By international agreement , craters on Mars are named after people who have studied the planet or evoked it in their creative work— which mostly makes Mars a ...
... Martians were impossible . So while there might be intelligent Martians , there could be no links of history or interest between them and us . This gave the Mar- tians an interesting rhetorical niche that they quickly made their 18 MAPS.
... interest in the planet was laid down . Proctor's astronomical pantheon was reconvened - Dawes , Secchi , Mädler , Beer , and the rest of them all got craters , as did Proctor himself . And in 1972 the International Astronomical Union ...
... interest he had shared with those close to him . In 1942 , when he was working for the Douglas Aircraft corporation in El Segundo , California , he started courting a girl named Louise Darling . His interests made their dates a little ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |
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Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |