TY - BOOK AU - Rabkin,Eric S. TI - Mars: a tour of the human imagination SN - 0275987191 (alk. paper) U1 - 523.43 PY - 2005/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Praeger Publishers KW - Science fiction KW - Science in popular culture KW - Mars (Planet) KW - Exploration N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Red light in the black sky -- Starry night -- Ancient Egypt : Har Decher -- The idealized solar system -- What was a planet? -- Mesopotamia : Nergal -- Ancient Greece : Ares -- Ancient Rome : Mars -- The sunset of Mars -- Changes in Venus -- Metaphorical Mars -- Ptolemy -- The observation of the planets -- Astrological symbols -- Days of the week -- Alchemy -- The Mars symbol -- Nicolaus Copernicus: Reorganizing the universe -- Johannes Kepler : Putting Mars in its place -- Galileo Galilei : Questions of authority -- Evangelista Torricelli : How space became empty -- Christian Huygens : Other earths? -- Giovanni Cassini : Very, very carefully -- Isaac Newton : One big universe -- Mars on their minds -- Jonathan Swift : Imaginary travels -- William Herschel : Stars and Mars -- The solar system today -- Asaph Hall : The sons of Mars -- Giovanni Schiaparelli : Gaining in translation -- Camille Flammarion : Astrophile extraordinaire -- Percival Lowell : A glorious obsession -- Percival Lowell : Mapping Mars and Martians -- H.G. Wells : The War of the Worlds -- H.G. Wells : Another view from Mars -- A world ready to believe -- Mark Wicks : A Lowellian utopia -- Edgar Rice Burroughs : Mars and America -- Mars: The bar from barsoom -- Dead Mars? -- Orson Welles : The War of the Worlds broadcast -- Marvin the Martian : Playing With Aliens 200 Ray Bradbury: An American Fairyland 202 George Pal: The War of the Worlds again 208 Spacecraft: Us v. them -- Off to camp -- Chemosphere -- Robert A. Heinlein : The Martian savior -- Enter NASA -- My favorite Martian -- The age of Aquarius -- The face on Mars -- Mars attacks! -- Leaving earth behind -- Mars today -- Phobos and deimos today -- Men are from Mars ... -- The NASA fication of Mars -- Mars : The eighth continent -- Marscape -- Terraforming Mars -- Red rover -- Water on Mars -- Land of spirit and opportunity -- August, 2003 266 -- The beagle hasn't landed -- A-roving we will go. ER -