Imagining Outer Space European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geppert, Alexander C.T (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; Astronomy.; Europe-History.; Social history.; History, Modern.; History of Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; European History.; Social History.; Modern History.

Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflig...