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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... things , you can see a blue plaque of the sort with which London marks houses where people who have made a signif- icant contribution to human happiness once lived . In this case , it was the poet Cecil Day Lewis ; as you climb the hill ...
... things , there is something far grander . Wherever else astronomers go when they die , those who have shown even the faintest interest in the place are welcomed onto the planet Mars , at least in name . By international agreement ...
... thing to do would be to build a network of long , straight canals . And since this is what we see when we look at ... things that the planets had in common was life , especially since , after Copernicus , many astronomers tended to go ...
... things that made them easy to believe in . Another spur to belief was the difference that the existence of Martian minds made to the way earthly imaginations saw Mars . One of the Copernican in which Martians made the planet Mars a ...
... 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 network in 25 MERT DAVIES'S NET.
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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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