News from Mars : Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910 /

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"Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility that it might be inhabited. As rivalling...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nall, Joshua, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Martians in mass media.
Life on other planets.
Astronomy.
SCIENCE > General.
Astronomie > Histoire > 20e siecle > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Astronomie > Histoire > 19e siecle > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Vie extraterrestre > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Martiens dans les medias > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Astronomy > History > 20th century > Popular works.
Astronomy > History > 19th century > Popular works.
Life on other planets > Popular works.
Martians in mass media > Popular works.
Mars (Planet)
Mars (Planete) > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Mars (Planet) > Popular works.
Popular works.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Writing on Mars : imaginative astronomy and the new journalism
  • Annihilating time and space : observatories and the technological west
  • Constructing canals on Mars : event astronomy and the "great Mars boom" of 1892
  • Made to last : "Mars" in the eleventh-edition Encyclopaedia Britannica
  • Conclusion.

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