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Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars - As Translated by Patrick Moore (Hardcover, 2015 ed.) Loot Price: R5,275
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Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars - As Translated by Patrick Moore (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Camille Flammarion

Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars - As Translated by Patrick Moore (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)

Camille Flammarion; Edited by William Sheehan; Translated by Patrick Moore

Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 409

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Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) began his career at 16 as a human computer under the great mathematician U. J. J. Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory. He soon tired of the drudgery; he was drawn to more romantic vistas, and at 19 wrote a book on an idea that he was to make his own-the habitability of other worlds. There followed a career as France's greatest popularizer of astronomy, with over 60 titles to his credit. An admirer granted him a chateau at Juvisy-sur-l'Orge, and he set up a first-rate observatory dedicated to the study of the planet Mars. Finally, in 1892, he published his masterpiece, La Planete Mars et ses conditions d'habitabilite, a comprehensive summary of three centuries' worth of literature on Mars, much of it based on his own personal research into rare memoirs and archives. As a history of that era, it has never been surpassed, and remains one of a handful of indispensable books on the red planet. Sir Patrick Moore (1923-2012) needs no introduction; his record of popularizing astronomy in Britain in the 20th century equaled Flammarion's in France in the 19th century. Moore pounded out hundreds of books as well as served as presenter of the BBC's TV program "Sky at Night" program for 55 years (a world record). Though Moore always insisted that the Moon was his chef-d'oeuvre, Mars came a close second, and in 1980 he produced a typescript of Flammarion's classic. Unfortunately, even he found the project too daunting for his publish ers and passed the torch of keeping the project alive to a friend, the amateur astronomer and author William Sheehan, in 1993. Widely regarded as a leading historian of the planet Mars, Sheehan has not only meticulously compared and corrected Moore's manuscript against Flammarion's original so as to produce an authoritative text, he has added an important introduction showing the book's significance in the history of Mars studies. Here results a book that remains an invaluable resource and is also a literary tour-de-force, in which the inimitable style of Flammarion has been rendered in the equally unique style of Moore.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 409
Release date: November 2014
First published: 2015
Authors: Camille Flammarion
Editors: William Sheehan
Translators: Patrick Moore
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Edition: 2015 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-09640-7
Languages: English
Subtitles: French
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Popular astronomy
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Space travel & exploration
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Solar system > General
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LSN: 3-319-09640-0
Barcode: 9783319096407

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