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Robert W. Smith is a historian of science at the University of Alberta. Among his recent works is a chapter on “Wallace and Extraterrestrial Life” for the Chicago Companion to Alfred Russell Wallace, and he is a co-editor of the forthcoming Neptune: From Grand Discovery to a World Revealed. In 2020, he was awarded the American Astronomical Society’s Doggett Prize for the History of Astronomy.
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Smith, R.W. Joshua Nall, News from Mars: Mass Media and the Forging of a New Astronomy, 1860–1910, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, 287 pages, $50 (hardcover). Phys. Perspect. 22, 182–184 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-020-00261-1
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