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News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910 by Joshua Nall

News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860-1910

Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Joshua Nall

312 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative medium-paced
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Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet, astronomers and the public at large vigorously debated the possibility...

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