Geographers of Mars

@article{Lane2005GeographersOM,  title={Geographers of Mars},  author={K. Maria D. Lane},  journal={Isis},  year={2005},  volume={96},  pages={477 - 506},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:33079760}}
This essay offers a new explanation for the power with which the notion of an inhabited Mars gripped noted scholars and everyday citizens on both sides of the Atlantic and suggests that turn‐of‐the‐century representations of Mars could be productively recontextualized alongside geographical works produced in the same period.

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