Mars (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen James O’Meara, William Sheehan
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: History of science, science, and natural history
- Time of Work: Prehistory through 2000
- Setting: Earth and the planet Mars
- Principal Characters: Johannes Kepler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Percival Lowell, Eugène Michael Antoniadi, Carl Sagan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Orson Welles
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Science and technology
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Planets, Mars, Astronomy or astronomers, Space sciences
In tracing all of Mars’ history as seen from Earth, William Sheehan and Stephen James O’Meara undertake an ambitious project. Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet is a journey of mankind’s fascination with the fourth planet from the Sun. Sheehan and O’Meara take all humankind’s recorded accounts of Mars—some going back over ten thousand years—and highlight significant scientific discoveries and dramatic stories up to the present time. Even in this distillation of the high points in Mars’ history, the authors manage to cover a lot of ground.
The journey starts...
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