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Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
K. Maria D. Lane
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Description for Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet
Hardcover. One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life-forms on the distant red planet - a hope that continued into the 1960s. This title telescopes in on a critical period in the development of the geographical imagination. Num Pages: 272 pages, 39 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: PGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life-forms on the distant red planet - a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and challenged dominant geopolitical themes during a time of major cultural, intellectual, political, and economic ... Read more
One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life-forms on the distant red planet - a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and challenged dominant geopolitical themes during a time of major cultural, intellectual, political, and economic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226470788
SKU
V9780226470788
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About K. Maria D. Lane
K. Maria D. Lane is assistant professor of geography at the University of New Mexico.
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