01016nam a2200253 i 450099100323837970753620020509114617.0981216s1993 uk ||| | eng 0521380197b11130295-39ule_instPARLA177938ExLDip.to Scienze dell'AntichitàitaMartindale, Charles169444Horace made new :Horatian influence on British writing from the Renaissance to the twentieth century /edited by Charles Martindale and David HopkinsCambridge :Cambridge University Press,1993XVIII, 330 ;24 cm.Orazio Flacco, QuintoStudiHopkins, David.b1113029502-04-1428-06-02991003238379707536LE007 870.1 Horatius MAR 01.50112015000025579le007-E0.00-l- 00000.i1126890628-06-02Horace made new871999UNISALENTOle00701-01-98ma -enguk 0105030nam 22006495 450 991029979160332120230810153630.09781349953394134995339310.1057/978-1-349-95339-4(CKB)4100000003359146(MiAaPQ)EBC5372089(DE-He213)978-1-349-95339-4(Perlego)3483567(EXLCZ)99410000000335914620180425d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImagining Outer Space European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century /edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert2nd ed. 2018.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2018.1 online resource (459 pages)Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,2730-97389781349953387 1349953385 Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism Historicizing the Space Age; A.C.T.Geppert -- PART I: NARRATING OUTER SPACE -- 2. Space, Time and Aliens:The Role of Imagination in Outer Space; S.J.Dick -- 3. Heaven on Earth: Tunguska, 30 June 1908; C.Schmölders -- 4. Imagining Inorganic Life: Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction; T.Brandstetter -- PART II: PROJECTING OUTER SPACE -- 5. Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind onto Another World: Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars; R.Eisfeld -- 6. 'Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron': East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s; M.J.Neufeld -- 7. Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalypse of Weightlessness: T.Bjørnvig -- PART III: VISUALIZING OUTER SPACE -- 8. Per Media Ad Astra?: Outer Space in West Germany's Media, 1957-87; B.Mütter -- 9. Balloons on the Moon: Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips; G.de Syon -- 10. 'A Stumble in the Dark': Contextualizing Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Space: 1999; H.Keazor -- PART IV: ENCOUNTERING OUTER SPACE -- 11. Life as We Don't Yet Know It: An Anthropologist's First Contact with the Science of 'Weird Life'; D.Battaglia -- 12. A Ghost in the Machine: How Sociology Tried to Explain (Away) American Flying Saucers and European Ghost Rockets, 1946-47; P.Lagrange -- 13. Seeing the Future of Civilization in the Skies of Quarouble: UFO Encounters and the Problem of Empire in Postwar France; J.Miller -- PART V: INSCRIBING OUTER SPACE -- 14. Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI; G.Munévar -- 15. Inscribing Scientific Knowledge: Interstellar Communication, NASA's Pioneer Plaque, and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination, 1971-72; W.R.Macauley -- 16. Alien Spotting: Damien Hirst's Beagle 2 , Mars Lander Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space; T.Weddigen -- Epilogue -- 17. Look Up: Art in the Age of Orbitization; P.Pocock -- Bibliography -- Index.Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary worlds beyond our own, the book analyzes contact points between science and fiction from a transdisciplinary perspective and examines sites and situations where utopian images and futuristic technologies contributed to the omnipresence of fantasmatic thought. Bringing together state-of-the-art work in this emerging field of historical research, the volume breaks new ground in the historicization of the Space Age.Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,2730-9738ScienceHistoryAstronomyEuropeHistorySocial historyHistory, ModernHistory of ScienceAstronomy, Cosmology and Space SciencesEuropean HistorySocial HistoryModern HistoryScienceHistory.Astronomy.EuropeHistory.Social history.History, Modern.History of Science.Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.European History.Social History.Modern History.387.80940904Geppert Alexander C.Tedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910299791603321Imagining Outer Space2501114UNINA