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