Elias Colbert

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.

Selected works

• 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

Bibliography

• Library of Congress. (n.d.). "Envisioning Martian Civilizations". Life on Other Worlds. Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
• Taylor, Charles H. (February 1922). "A Memorial to Elias Colbert". Popular Astronomy. Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College. 30 (2).

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