Elias Colbert (April 23, 1829 - June 28, 1921) was a British American astronomer, journalist, educator, mathematician, linguist, professor at the University of Chicago, director of the Dearborn Observatory, and president of the Chicago Astronomical Society. His book, Star Studies: What We Know of the Universe Outside the Earth (1871) was an early, 19th century example of interest in the subject of life on Mars.[1]

Elias Colbert

Selected works

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  • Scoriæ: Eulogy on Shakespeare (1864)
  • Astronomy Without a Telescope (1869)
  • Chicago and the Great Conflagration (1871)
  • Star Studies: What We Know of the Universe Outside the Earth (1871)
  • The Lunar Apsides (1885)
  • Washington, Shakespeare and St. George (1893)
  • The Earth Measured (1898)

References

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  1. ^ Taylor 1921, pp. 90-93; Library of Congress, "Envisioning Martian Civilizations".

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