News from Mars : mass media and the forging of a new astronomy, 1860-1910 /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
