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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nall, Joshua, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Colección:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1999
Martians in mass media > Popular works.
Life on other planets > Popular works.
Astronomy > History > 19th century > Popular works.
Astronomy > History > 20th century > Popular works.
Martiens dans les médias > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Vie extraterrestre > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Astronomie > Histoire > 19e siècle > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Astronomie > Histoire > 20e siècle > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
SCIENCE > General.
Astronomy
Life on other planets
Martians in mass media
Mars (Planet) > Popular works.
Mars (Planète) > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Mars (Planet)
History
Popular works
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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