The Canals of Mars: A Compelling Study of Mass Deception in the History of Science
 

We know today that there is nothing on Mars that even remotely resembles engineered canals. So, how and why did so many eminent men of science across America come to adopt an idea that was so wrong? How, in fact, did the Canals of Mars controversy begin? This compelling-and deeply mysterious- story of early 20th century science gripped me recently again (the first time was as a teenager in the 1960s) through the magic of the Gutenberg Project and the Internet Archive when I downloaded copies, both on my Kindle and on my desktop, of Edward S. Morse, Mars And Its Mystery, (Boston: 1906), Little Brown.

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