LEADER 03967nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910459595503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-05837-5 010 $a9786613058379 010 $a0-226-47079-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226470795 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066501 035 $a(EBL)648140 035 $a(OCoLC)695993906 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469519 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12192703 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469519 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10511428 035 $a(PQKB)10471333 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123039 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC648140 035 $a(DE-B1597)524581 035 $a(OCoLC)994502780 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226470795 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL648140 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10438620 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305837 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066501 100 $a20100524d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGeographies of Mars$b[electronic resource] $eseeing and knowing the red planet /$fK. Maria D. Lane 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-47078-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUnderstanding Mars: sensation, science, and geography -- Representing scientific data: cartographic inscription and visual authority -- Representing scientific sites: vision and fieldwork at the mountain observatories -- Representing scientists: heroism, adventure, and the geographical outlook -- Placing the red planet: meanings in the martian landscape -- Toward a cultural geography of Mars: imaginative geography and the superior Martian. 330 $aOne of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet-a hope that continued into the 1960's. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and challenged dominant geopolitical themes during a time of major cultural, intellectual, political, and economic transition in the Western world. Geographies of Mars telescopes in on a critical period in the development of the geographical imagination, when European imperialism was at its zenith and American expansionism had begun in earnest. Astronomers working in the new observatories of the American Southwest or in the remote heights of the South American Andes were inspired, Lane finds, by their own physical surroundings and used representations of the Earth's arid landscapes to establish credibility for their observations of Mars. With this simple shift to the geographer's point of view, Lane deftly explains some of the most perplexing stances on Mars taken by familiar protagonists such as Percival Lowell, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Lester Frank Ward. A highly original exploration of geography's spatial dimensions at the beginning of the twentieth century, Geographies of Mars offers a new view of the mapping of far-off worlds. 606 $aMartians 607 $aMars (Planet)$xResearch$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aMars (Planet)$xResearch$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMars (Planet)$xGeography 607 $aMars (Planet)$vMaps 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMartians. 676 $a523.43072 700 $aLane$b K. Maria D$0919319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459595503321 996 $aGeographies of Mars$92061842 997 $aUNINA