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Destination Mars In Art, Myth and Science by Caidin & Barbree w/Dust Jacket
Destination Mars In Art, Myth and Science by Caidin & Barbree
Destination Mars
In Art, Myth and Science
Martin Caidin & Jay Barbree with Susan Wright
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
228 Pages
Copyright 1997
Contents
1 THE MARTIANS ARE HERE! 1
FEAR OF INVASION 7
War of the Worlds 10
THE MYTHOLOGICAL ARCHETYPE 14
2 THE MYTH OF MARS 17
Babylonian Astronomy 19
Greek Astronomy 20
THE GREEK MYTH OF ARES 21
Homer 24
THE CULT OF ARES 26
HELLENISTIC ASTRONOMY 28
Alexander the Great 29
Claudius Ptolemy 29
ROMAN CULT OF MARS 30
LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS 33
3 CHRISTIANITY AND ARIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES 35 Christianity and Science 37
ASTROLOGY 59
Attributes of Mars 40
THE CHURCH AND ASTROLOGY 42
Greek Translations 44
Exploration 45
4 THE RENAISSANCE OF MARS 47
Nicolaus Copernicus 49
THE'REFORMATION 51
Johannes Kepler 52
Science Fiction 56
THE ENLIGHTENMENT 56
Christian Huygens 59
Jonathan Swift 61
5 LIFE ON MARS IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE 63
ASTRONOMICAL ADVANCES OF 1877 66 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli 71
CONTACTING MARTIANS 74
INVASION BY MARTIANS 77
H. G. Wells 79
Edisonade 80
6 MARS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 83
SPACE OPERA 88
Edgar Rice Burroughs 90
Martian Music 92
ORIGINS OF SCIENCE FICTION 94
Hugo Gernsback 95
GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION 96
Pulp Magazines 98
Comics 100
Mars in the Movies 102
7 THE GOLDEN AGE OF MARS: POST-WORLD WAR II 105
FANTASY-SCIENCE FICTION 110
Ray Bradbury 111
SCIENCE FICTION 113
COLD WAR ANXIETY 115
Monster Movies 117
8 THE MARINER MISSIONS GO TO MARS 121
Water on Mars 126
CULTURAL REVOLUTION 130
Pop Culture 132
Philip K. Dick 135
MARINERS 6 AND 7 137
Chaotic Terrain 138
9 THE REALITY OF MARS IN THE 1970S 145
Government Paranoia 147
MARINER 9 149
Weather on Mars 154
INHABITING MARS 158
10 LANDING ON MARS: THE VIKING MISSION 161
Viking Orbiters 165
Viking Landers 169
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE 171
11 MARS TODAY 177
ALIENS ON MARS 181
The Face of Cydonia 184
MARS OBSERVER 188
FICTIONAL MARS 190
Satire 191
Cyberpunk 192
12 MARS TOMORROW: THE DAWN OF A NEW MILLENNIUM 197
ROBOTIC PROBES 201
Future Missions to Mars 204
MANNED MISSIONS TO MARS 206
CORPORATE INCENTIVE 211
Marketing Mars 213
MARS COLONY 214
Terraforming Mars 218
INDEX 223
Mars, the Red Planet, has beguiled earthlings and lodged itself in the human imagination as a locus of hope, fascination and fear.
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