LEADER 05853nam 22008415 450 001 9910300424303321 005 20200707022851.0 010 $a3-319-09641-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-09641-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000269626 035 $a(EBL)1967990 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001372554 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11767028 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001372554 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11310472 035 $a(PQKB)11610484 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-09641-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1967990 035 $a(PPN)182098141 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000269626 100 $a20141030d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCamille Flammarion's The Planet Mars$b[electronic resource] $eAs Translated by Patrick Moore /$fby Camille Flammarion ; edited by William Sheehan 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (540 p.) 225 1 $aAstrophysics and Space Science Library,$x0067-0057 ;$v409 300 $aInclude indexes. 311 $a3-319-09640-0 327 $aPart I First Period: 1636-1830 -- Second Period: 1830-1877 -- Third Period Martian Cycle 1877-1892 -- Part II Dimensions of the Planet -- Rotation: Length of Day and Night -- Geography of Mars, or Aerography?- The Atmosphere of Mars: Martian Climates and Meteorology: Conditions of Life on Mars -- The Seasons of Mars -- Changes Actually Observed on the Surface of Mars -- The Canals, the Rivers, the Geometrical Reseau of the Continents and the Circulation of the Waters -- Summary of the Conditions For Life on the Surface of Mars. 330 $aCamille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory.  He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to make his own?the habitability of other worlds.  There followed a career as France?s greatest popularizer of astronomy, with over 60 titles to his credit.  An admirer granted him a chateau at Juvisy-sur-l?Orge, and he set up a first-rate observatory dedicated to the study of the planet Mars. Finally, in 1892, he published his masterpiece, La Planete Mars et ses conditions d?habitabilite, a comprehensive summary of three centuries? worth of literature on Mars, much of it based on his own personal research into rare memoirs and archives.  As a history of that era, it has never been surpassed, and remains one of a handful of indispensable books on the red planet. Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) needs no introduction; his record of popularizing astronomy in Britain in the 20th century equaled Flammarion?s in France in the 19th century.  Moore pounded out hundreds of books as well as served as presenter of the BBC?s TV program ?Sky at Night? program for 55 years (a world record).  Though Moore always insisted that the Moon was his chef-d?oeuvre, Mars came a close second, and in 1980 he produced a typescript of Flammarion?s classic.  Unfortunately, even he found the project too daunting for his publish ers and passed the torch of keeping the project alive to a friend, the amateur astronomer and author William Sheehan, in 1993. Widely regarded as a leading historian of the planet Mars,  Sheehan has not only meticulously compared and corrected Moore?s manuscript against Flammarion?s original so as to produce an authoritative text, he has  added an important introduction showing the book?s significance in the history of Mars studies.  Here results a book that remains an invaluable resource and is also a literary tour-de-force, in which the inimitable style of Flammarion has been rendered in the equally unique style of Moore. 410 0$aAstrophysics and Space Science Library,$x0067-0057 ;$v409 606 $aPlanetology 606 $aSpace sciences 606 $aCultural heritage 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aPhysics 606 $aPlanetology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G18010 606 $aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22030 606 $aCultural Heritage$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/419000 606 $aPopular Science in Astronomy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 607 $aMars (Planet) 607 $aMars (Planet)$vObservations 607 $aMars (Plane?te) 607 $aMars (Planet)$2fast 608 $aEarly works to 1800. 608 $aObservations. 608 $aObservations.$2fast 615 0$aPlanetology. 615 0$aSpace sciences. 615 0$aCultural heritage. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aPhysics. 615 14$aPlanetology. 615 24$aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). 615 24$aCultural Heritage. 615 24$aPopular Science in Astronomy. 615 24$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 676 $a523.43 700 $aFlammarion$b Camille$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$03296 702 $aSheehan$b William$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300424303321 996 $aCamille Flammarion's The Planet Mars$91771516 997 $aUNINA