Geographers of Mars
@article{Lane2005GeographersOM, title={Geographers of Mars}, author={K. Maria D. Lane}, journal={Isis}, year={2005}, volume={96}, pages={477 - 506} }
Over two decades spanning the turn of the twentieth century, astronomers’ claims about the landscape and climate of Mars spurred widespread scientific and popular interest in the possibility that the red planet might be inhabited. This essay offers a new explanation for the power with which the notion of an inhabited Mars gripped noted scholars and everyday citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. Rather than pointing to a rekindling of age‐old philosophical interest in the plurality of worlds…
15 Citations
Anti-Astropolitik — outer space and the orbit of geography
- Geography
- 2007
This paper aims to establish outer space as a mainstream concern of critical geography. More than half a century after humans first cast their instruments into orbit, contemporary human geography has…
Extra-terra incognita: Martian maps in the digital age
- SociologySocial studies of science
- 2017
This paper analyzes two attributes of the map, evident in both its representation and the attending cartographic practices: a sense of Mars as dynamic and a desire for a democratic experience of Mars in which up-to-date Mars data can be intuitively accessed not only by scientists but by lay users as well.
Antipodes to Terra Australis
- Art
- 2010
The idea of an imaginary southern continent persisted in European discourse for two millennia in an unbroken chain of scholarship stretching from antiquity to the cusp of modern times. The…
Mapping the Mars Canal Mania: Cartographic Projection and the Creation of a Popular Icon
- Physics
- 2006
At the turn of the twentieth century, a popular mania developed around the idea that Mars was inhabited by intelligent beings. This obsession was originally based in the science of the time, but it…
Colonialism and Place Creation in Mars Pathfinder Media Coverage
- Art
- 2007
This paper addresses the representation of the planet Mars during the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission through a content analysis of major U.S. newspapers as well as transcripts of television and radio…
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
- Physics, Geology
- 2016
In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making…
Identity and geopolitics in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin
- Sociology, Art
- 2009
This is a study of identity and geopolitics in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, a series of adventure comics created from 1929 to 1976. The Tintin comics became increasingly popular throughout the…
Contested landscapes: the moral geographies of light pollution in Britain
- Sociology
- 2015
This paper considers the concept of light pollution and its connections to moral geographies of landscape in Britain. The paper aims to provide a greater understanding of light pollution in the…
Priority claims and public disputes in astronomy: E.M. Antoniadi, J. Comas i Solà and the search for authority and social prestige in the early twentieth century
- PhysicsThe British Journal for the History of Science
- 2011
Abstract The reorganization of the astronomical community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, due to the rise of astrophysics, was seen by some scientists as an opportunity to…
References
SHOWING 1-2 OF 2 REFERENCES
On Mars, a Second Chance for Life
- PhysicsScience
- 2004
The Mars rovers, with the help of remote-sensing spacecraft, have sniffed out water and found the remains of one or more ancient environments where life could have survived. Indeed, early Mars is…