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Lived by the age of now ambitious robotic exploration on MarsIn an end Man’s mission in red plans likely to happen in one day, it’s hard to think about a time when Mars a mysterious and inaccessible world. And however, before the invention of the rocket, astronomer who wanted to explore Mars above what they saw through their telebles.
As an alasticity in space and book author “For love on Mars: a human history of red planet“I work to understand how people at different times and places imagine Mars.
The second half of the 19th century is a more interesting time to imagine Mars. This is a time when red planet seems ready to Give some of the mystery. Astronomers Further about Mars, but they still don’t have enough information to find out if it is hosting life, and if so, what kind of class.
With more powerful binoculars and new printing technologies, astronomers have begun to apply cartographic tools to the geographers to make first detailed maps of the planet’s faceIt is filled with continents and oceans, and in some cases somebody can do in life. Because it’s harder to see actual parts of Mars, these maps are different.
At this time, a famous scientist and poinscizer brought science of science and imagination to explore the possibilities that life in another world can hold.
Camille Flammariion
An imaginary thought whose attention was attracted to Mars at this time was the Assonom of the Parisian astronomer Camille Flammariion. In 1892, Flammemion was published “The Planet Mars“Left to this day is a definite history of observation Mars to the 19th century. This task, this work, this work, reported 572 drawings on Mars.
As most of his contemporaries, Flammemion concludes that Mars, an elderly world undergoing the same episodes of evolution such as landneed a living world. Unlike his contemporaries, he forced the Mars, while it was the most like world like the world in our solar system, was Race in one’s own world.
These are the differences that make Mars interesting in submission, not the similarities. Any life found to have evolution to match its particular situations – an idea that appeals to the writer HG Wells When he imagined Invasion of Martians in the “world war.”
But flammariion also claims difficult to press these differences, as “distance is greater, our situation is larger, and our instruments are not enough.” None of the maps inspected can literally be taken, he wailed, because everyone saw a different Mars.
This uncertainty is given about what is seen above Mars, Marnsic flammemion takes an agnostic principle of “The Planet Mars” about the specific nature of Mars life.
However, he thought that if there was an intelligent life with Mars, it could more ancient than human life here on earth. In reasonable, that life can be more perfect – the same in peaceful, jointly and the technological development of civilization that he has foretold in the coming century.
“However, however, he wrote,” That from the world of Mars is older than ourselves, the inhabitants of it are wise and more advanced than the man who has developed this neighbor’s neighbor. “
But as he promotes the fire of his readers, “known is a small island between the oceans of an unknown,” a point he has always announced for more than 70 books he published in his life. This is the “unknown” he finds more intimidating.
Historians often describe Flammarion more than a contestant than a serious scientist, but it does not reduce his achievements. For Flammarion, science is not a procedure or a body of established knowledge. This is the nasent core of a new philosophy waiting to be born. He took his written writing seriously and expected to make it mind to people in the sky.
Imaginary novel
If the planet’s face is not resolved or somehow talking to its inhabitants, it has never been done to think about what life forms can be in Mars. And yet flammemion thinks – less than his scientific work, but in a series of novels he wrote the flow of his career.
Of these imaginary acts, he was in the Mars and seeing it for himself. Unlike his contemporary, author of Science Fiction Lands in Tralesthat fantasize a technology accelerated by the moon, the flammemion is preferred a kind of spiritual journey.
Based on his belief that human souls after death can travel in space in a way that living bodies are not also Dreamon accounts or fictional characters.
In his novel “Urania “(1889)Flammarion’s soul visits Mars in a dream. When he arrived, he encountered a friend who died, George Spro, who was reincarnned as a wing, sad, six altered.
“Organisms will no longer be the earth to marry
Later in the same novel, Spro’s soul visited the flammemion in the world. He revealed that Martian civilization and science that improved ahead of the earth, not only because Mars was an elderly world, but because the The atmosphere is thin and more appropriate for Astronomy.
Flammemion visualizes the practice and enlargement of astronomy, along with other sciences, helped in progress Martian society.
Fantastic Martians in Flammarion live in intellectual life without fear of war, hunger and other concerns in the world. This is what the curse of life wants for his fellow parisils, who live by the destruction of Franco-Prussian war and suffered hunger and deprivation during Siege in Paris and after it.
Now, Mars in Flammarion is a reminder that that imagining a future with Mars As much as understanding ourselves and our Social Aspirations As technologies develop us there.
Extension of science spread is his way of helping his fellow people who are bound to understand their place in the universe. They can be a day to join his imaginative Martians, which are not meant to be larger than Mars maps he checked for “planets Mars.” Her world is an example of what life can be under the right circumstances.
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