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Geographies of Mars: seeing and knowing the red planet

One 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 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history o...

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Autor principal: Lane, K Maria D
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: University of Chicago Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1612930