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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... 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 and Stanley Weinbaum , Arthur C. Clarke and Robert ...
... measured its resemblance to the Earth , searched for its missing waters , and -- always - won- dered about the life it might be home to . The stories they tell about the planet must have pride of place . But there are artists in here ...
... measured with respect to that line through Greenwich Park . The English have taken the Greenwich meridian as the starting point for longitudes since the observatory was founded in the sev- enteenth century . But it wasn't until the late ...
... measurements of the planet's diameter — were commemorated by the Airy Sea . Pride of place went to the Rev. William Rutter Dawes , a Mars observer of ferociously keen eyesight , perceiving , for example , that the dark patch Mädler had ...
... measurements made with respect to things in this well - defined network and it will be highly accurate . If , unlike Hol- land , your country is large , mountainous , and only sparsely sup- plied with steeples , setting up a reliable ...
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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 |
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