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The great-grandparents of most European and American adults alive today were adults a hundred years ago. What was their world like? In particular, what were the prevailing visions of reality in astronomy, cosmology, and physics for the educated adult layperson in 1897?
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
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See Joel Davis, Flyby: The Interplanetary Odyssey of Voyager 2 (New York: Atheneum, 1987) for details on the discoveries of the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.
The first science journalist to publish on this was probably Richard Hoagland. Today mainly known for his controversial theories about the so-called face on Mars, in the late 1970s and 1980s Hoagland was writing for Star And Sky magazine and working as a science consultant to CNN News. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke later incorporated the idea of life on Europa into his novel 2010, the sequel to the movie (and his book) 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Davis, J. (1997). Alternate Realities: Seeing Things Invisible. In: Alternate Realities. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3440-6_5
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