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Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination
Robert Markley
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| #2604404 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2005-09-08 | 2005-09-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.15 x6.00l,1.42 | File type: PDF | 456 pages | ||5 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Great Book About Mars and its Place in the Popular Culture|By Charles J. Rector|This is a rather dense book about Mars and its place in the popular culture. A great deal of space is spent on Mars related movies.
This book shows that the claims of Percival Lowell regarding Mars as a dying planet still heavily influenced scientists about Mars even into the present day.|From Scientific American|The planet Mars—crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms—has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planetological theories, utopian fantasies,
For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity’s place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which humankind has projected both its hopes for the future and its fears of ecological devastation on Earth. Robert Markley draws on planetary astronomy, the history and cultural study of science, science fi...
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