Mars : a tour of the human imagination
Rabkin weaves a chronological tale of many threads, including mythology, astrology, astronomy, literary criticism, and cultural studies.More than 60 brief chapters focus on people, events, or phenomena concerning the eternal object of curiosity, Mars.
eBook, Undefined, 2005
Praeger Publishers, Westport, 2005
xiv, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
9780275987190, 0275987191
1158642164
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsRed Light in the Black SkyStarry NightAncient Egypt: Har DecherThe Idealized Solar SystemWhat Was A Planet?Mesopotamia: NegralAncient Greece: AresAncient Rome: MarsThe Sunset of MarsChanges in VenusMetaphorical MarsPtolemyThe Observation of the PlanetsAstrological SymbolsDays of the WeekAlchemyThe Mars SymbolNicolaus Copernicus: Reorganizing the UniverseJohannes Kepler: Putting Mars in Its PlaceGalileo Galilei: Questions of AuthorityEvangelista Torricelli: How Space Became EmptyChristian Huygens: Other Earths?Giovanni Cassini: Very, Very CarefullyIsaac Newton: One Big UniverseMars on Their MindsJonathan Swift: Imaginary TravelsWilliam Herschel: Stars and MarsThe Solar System TodayAsaph Hall: The Sons of MarsGiovanni Schiaparelli: Gaining in TranslationCamille Flammarion: Astrophile ExtraordinairePercival Lowell: A Glorious ObsessionPercival Lowell: Mapping Mars and MartiansH.G. Wells: The War of the WorldsH.G. Wells: Another View From MarsA World Ready to BelieveMark Wicks: A Lowellian UtopiaEdgar Rice Burroughs: Mars and AmericaMars: The Bar vrom BarsoomDead Mars?Orson Wells: The War of the Worlds BroadcastMarvin the Martian: Playing sith AliensRay Bradbury: An American FairylandGeorge Pal: The War of the Worlds AgainSpacecraft: Us v. ThemOff to CampChemosphereRobert A. Heinlein: The Martian SaviorEnter NASAMy Favorite MartianThe Age of AquariusThe Face on MarsMars Attacks!Leaving Earth BehindMars TodayPhobos and Deimos TodayMen Are from MarsThe Nasafication of MarsMars: The Eighth ContinentMarscapeTerraforming MarsRed RoverWater on MarsLand of Spirit and OpportunityAugust, 2003The Beagle Hasn't LandedA-Roving We Will Go