Camille Flammarion's The Planet Mars As Translated by Patrick Moore /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Flammarion, Camille (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sheehan, William (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 409
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Planetology.; Space sciences.; Physics.; Astronomy.; Earth Sciences.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 o...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I First Period: 1636-1830
• Second Period: 1830-1877
• Third Period Martian Cycle 1877-1892
• Part II Dimensions of the Planet
• Rotation: Length of Day and Night
• Geography of Mars, or Aerography?- The Atmosphere of Mars: Martian Climates and Meteorology: Conditions of Life on Mars
• The Seasons of Mars
• Changes Actually Observed on the Surface of Mars
• The Canals, the Rivers, the Geometrical Reseau of the Continents and the Circulation of the Waters
• Summary of the Conditions For Life on the Surface of Mars.