PREVIEW: From a much longer conversation, historian Matthew Shindell, author of the new FOR THE LOVE OF MARS, explains how the famous 18th Century astronomer, William Herschel, regarded Mars in particular and all the planets in general in terms of the que
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 29 December 2023
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For the Love of Mars: A Human History of the Red Planet Hardcover – May 18, 2023 by Matthew Shindell (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mars-Human-History-Planet/dp/0226821897/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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| 0:26.5 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:31.0 | A conversation with the historian Matthew |
| 0:33.5 | Schindel, his new book for the love of Mars, |
| 0:35.6 | a human history of the red planet. |
| 0:37.8 | We come to William Herschel, the famous astronomer |
| 0:40.3 | with his telescope, speculating about Mars, quite different from the way Mars had been |
| 0:46.4 | treated up to that point as a phenomenon that could not be explained and that as a phenomenon that was distinct from Earth. |
| 0:55.0 | Liam Herschel takes us into his understanding not only of Mars, but the rest of the solar system observable. |
| 1:02.0 | Here's the historical... of the rest of the solar system observable. |
| 1:03.2 | Here's the historian Matthew Schendel to explain from a much longer conversation. |
| 1:09.8 | They weren't doing very much direct observation of Mars, but you know the Hershills did have this idea that you know that that planets were born as a normal process of the evolution of a star. |
| 1:24.4 | That stars were born, they developed planets, |
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