Mars: A Tour of the Human Imagination
- ISBN-10
- 0275987191
- ISBN-13
- 9780275987190
- Series
- Mars
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Author
- Eric S. Rabkin
Description
As both an enduring object of curiosity and as a celestial embodiment of abstract ideas, Mars offers a fascinating and revealing focus for the historical understanding of the interplay of the physical world, the fanciful world, and the purportedly scientific world that grows from both.
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