1. Percival Lowell - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Percival Lowell, a descendant of the Boston Lowell family, was the brother of A. Lawrence, president of Harvard University, and Amy, an imagist poet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell

Percival Lowell From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Asteroids discovered: 1 Designator (name): 793 Arizona Discovery Date: April 9 Percival Lawrence Lowell March 13 November 12 ) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars , founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona , and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. The choice of the name Pluto and its symbol were partly influenced by his initials PL. Contents Biography Astronomy career See also External links ... edit Biography Percival Lowell, a descendant of the Boston Lowell family , was the brother of A. Lawrence , president of Harvard University , and Amy , an imagist poet, critic, and publisher. Percival graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in and Harvard University in with distinction in mathematics. In the 1880s, Lowell traveled extensively in the Far East . In August of 1883, he served as a foreign secretary and counsellor for a special Korean diplomatic mission to the United States . He also spent significant periods of time in Japan , writing books on Japanese religion, psychology, and behavior. His texts are filled with observations and academic discussions of various aspects of Japanese life, including language, religious practices, economics, travel in Japan, and the development of personality. Books by Percival Lowell on the Orient include

2. Percival Lowell - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Translate this page Percival Lowell (13 de marzo de 1855 – 13 de noviembre de 1916) fue un rico aficionado a la astronomía convencido de que existían canales en Marte, http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell

Percival Lowell De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Percival Lowell observando Marte desde el Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell 13 de marzo de 13 de noviembre de ) fue un rico aficionado a la astronom­a convencido de que exist­an canales en Marte , y fundador del Lowell Observatory en Flagstaff Tabla de contenidos Biograf­a Los canales de Marte A la caza de un nuevo planeta Referencias ... editar Biograf­a Percivall Lowell proven­a de una familia adinerada de Boston . Su hermano m¡s joven Abbott Lowell lleg³ a presidir la Universidad de Harvard y su hermana, Amy Lowell fue una conocida poetisa y cr­tica literaria en la ©poca. Percival Lowell se gradu³ con distinciones en matem¡ticas en la Universidad de Harvard en . Durante varios a±os viaj³ por Extremo Oriente antes de iniciar su carrera como astr³nomo a tiempo completo. En se desplaz³ a Flagstaff Arizona , donde construy³ un observatorio que permanece activo en nuestros d­as, el Lowell Observatory . Desde hasta su muerte fue profesor no residente del Instituto tecnol³gico de Massachusetts ( MIT editar Los canales de Marte Lowell fue en Estados Unidos el principal defensor de la existencia de canales en Marte . Hab­a recogido esa idea de las observaciones y dibujos de Giovanni Schiaparelli , un astr³nomo italiano de gran prestigio que hab­a anotado la palabra canali en algunas estructuras alargadas de la superficie del planeta. Lowell se interes³ en el tema y pas³ varios a±os observando la superficie de Marte y realizando multitud de dibujos de su superficie. Expuso sus observaciones y teor­as en tres libros:

3. Percival Lowell - Wikipédia Translate this page Percival Lowell (13 mars 1855, Boston - 13 novembre 1916, Flagstaff) était un astronome amateur aisé. Il est connu pour avoir soutenu la présence de canaux http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell

Percival Lowell Un article de Wikip©dia, l'encyclop©die libre. Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Percival Lowell observant Mars   l'observatoire Lowell. Percival Lowell ( 13 mars Boston 13 novembre Flagstaff ) ©tait un astronome amateur ais©. Il est connu pour avoir soutenu la pr©sence de canaux sur Mars et fut le fondateur de l' observatoire Lowell   Flagstaff, en Arizona . Il est ©galement   l'origine de la d©couverte de la plan¨te Pluton Percival Lowell ©tait issu d'une famille importante de Boston. Son plus jeune fr¨re, Abbott , a ©t© le pr©sident de l' universit© Harvard et sa sœur Amy ©tait une po©tesse et critique imagiste bien connue. En , il obtient un dipl´me de math©matiques   l' universit© Harvard et d©cide de se lancer dans les affaires. Jusqu'  l'¢ge de 28 ans, il travailla dans l'industrie de textile de son grand-p¨re o¹ il y fit fortune, puis commence une s©rie de voyages en Extrªme-Orient. Lowell commence   s'int©resser   l'astronomie lorsqu'il entre en contact avec l'astronome William Pickering en . Trois ans plus tard, il rentre d©finitivement aux

4. Percival Lowell Percival Lowell. Percival Lowell Born 13Mar-1855 Birthplace Boston, MA Brother Abbott Lawrence Lowell (President of Harvard University) http://www.nndb.com/people/339/000087078/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Percival Lowell Born: 13-Mar Birthplace: Boston, MA Died: 12-Nov Location of death: Flagstaff, AZ Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Astronomer Nationality: United States Executive summary: Predicted existence of planet Pluto Father: Augustus Lowell (b. 1830, d. 1901) Mother: Katharine Bigelow Brother: A. Lawrence Lowell (President of Harvard, b. 1-Jan-1856, d. 6-Jan-1943) Sister: Amy Lowell (poet, b. 9-Feb-1874, d. 12-May-1925) Wife: Constance Savage Keith (b. 31-Oct-1863, m. 1908, d. 25-Sep-1954) University: Harvard University (1876) Author of books: The Soul of the Far East Noto Occult Japan Mars Mars and Its Canals Mars as the Abode of Life Do you know something we don't? Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

5. Percival Lowell - Britannica Concise Lowell, Percival American astronomer who predicted the existence of a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune and initiated the search that ended in the http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9370638/Percival-Lowell

document.writeln(AAMB1); Lowell, Percival Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Percival Lowell born March 13, 1855, Boston, Mass., U.S. died Nov. 12, 1916, Flagstaff, Ariz. U.S. astronomer. He was born into a distinguished Boston family. In the 1890s he built a private observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., to study Mars . He championed the now-abandoned theory that intelligent inhabitants of a dying Mars had constructed a planetwide system of irrigation. He thought that the so-called canals of Mars ( see Mars, canals of ) were bands of cultivated vegetation dependent on this irrigation. Lowell's theory, long vigorously opposed, was finally put to rest by images received from the U.S. Mariner spacecraft. His prediction of a planet beyond Neptune and his organization of a search for it contributed to the discovery of Pluto in 1930. document.writeln(AAMB2); Images and Media: More on "Percival Lowell" from Britannica Concise Mars, canals of - Apparent systems of straight-line markings on the surface of Mars, now known to be an illusion caused by the chance alignment of large craters and other surface features. More on "Percival Lowell" from the 32 Volume Lowell, Percival

6. Percival Lowell - Wikiquote Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an amateur astronomer. A millionaire, he founded a professionalquality observatory at Flagstaff, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell

Percival Lowell From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Percival Lowell March 13 ... November 12 ) was an amateur astronomer. A millionaire, he founded a professional-quality observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona that is still in use. He is best known for his claims that Mars was covered with canals, which were due to intelligent life. This inspired H. G. Wells to write The War of the Worlds and Edgar Rice Burroughs to write his Mars novels. He also began a search for a ninth planet that led to the discovery of Pluto at his own observatory in 1930. This scientist article is a stub . You can help Wikiquote by edit Sourced The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear. Mars and its Canals (1906), Preface. Formulae are the anaethetics of thought, not its stimulants. Ibid That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be. Ibid , Chapter XXXII, Conclusion War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

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8. Percival Lowell Percival Lowell and his travels to Asia, including Japan and Korea. http://www.gkn-la.net/history_resources/percival_lowell.htm

9. Percival Lowell - Wikipedia Percival Lowell (born 1855, died 1916) A wealthy amateur astronomer who was convinced that there were canals on Mars, and the founder of Lowell Observatory http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Lowell

Percival Lowell From Wikipedia HomePage Recent changes View source Page history ... Log in Special pages Double redirects Broken redirects Disambiguation pages Log in Preferences My watchlist Recent changes Upload file File list Gallery of new files User list Statistics Random page Orphaned pages Uncategorized pages Uncategorized categories Uncategorized images Uncategorized templates Unused categories Unused files Wanted pages Wanted categories Most linked to pages Most linked to categories Most linked-to templates Pages with the most categories Most linked to images Pages with the most revisions Pages with the fewest revisions Short pages Long pages New pages Oldest pages Dead-end pages Protected pages Protected titles All pages Prefix index List of blocked IP addresses and usernames User contributions What links here Book sources Categories Export pages Version System messages Logs MIME search List redirects Unused templates Random redirect Pages without language links List of Wikimedia wikis File path Expand templates CategoryTree Gadgets Parser diff test Search Cross-namespace links Wikimedia Board of Trustees election Search web links Printable version Percival Lowell (born , died ) A wealthy amateur astronomer who was convinced that there were canals on Mars , and the founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona Percival Lowell came from a distinguished Boston family. In addition to his own accomplishments his younger brother Abbott was president of Harvard University, and his sister Amy was a well-known poet and critic.

10. Percival Lowell On SpaceKnowledge.Net Glossary Terms Christopher Columbus, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter McKnight, Mars, Mars Society, Marshall Savage, NASA, Penny Boston, Percival Lowell, http://spaceknowledge.net/?tag=percival-lowell

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12. Lowell, Percival (1855-1916) When asked which books he had enjoyed reading recently, British astronomer Norman Lockyer replied, Mars by percival lowell, Sentimental Tommy by J. M. http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/LowellP.html

A B C D ... CONTACT entire Web this site Lowell, Percival (1855-1916) Born into a wealthy and well-known Bostonian family, Lowell gave no early indication of the obsession that would come to dominate his life and create an enduring romance involving extraterrestrial canals (see Mars, canals ) and an advanced Martian civilization (see Mars, life on ). At Harvard, where for 24 years his brother was president, he showed a talent for mathematics and even presented an astronomical address entitled "The Nebular Hypothesis". But following his graduation, he devoted the next 17 years to family business concerns and three extended stays in the Orient. He served as Foreign Secretary and Counselor to the first Korean diplomatic mission and, during his time in Korea and Japan, wrote four books on Eastern thought and culture. Then, for some reason which is not entirely clear, he caught the Mars bug. Perhaps he had been inspired by reading Flammarion 's popular treatise on the planet. Or, it may have been Schiaparelli 's work that influenced him directly. Certainly, as early as 1890, he had begun to correspond with William

13. Percival Lowell --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on percival lowell American astronomer who predicted the existence of a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune and http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049156

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14. Mars - Percival Lowell And Mars percival lowell (18551916) is one of the best known observers of the planet Mars. lowell is pictured here in the observer s chair of the 61-centimeter http://airandspace.si.edu/etp/mars/percival.html

P ercival L owell and M ars 148 k GIF 37 k JPEG Lowell Observatory Photo P ercival L owell (1855-1916) is one of the best known observers of the planet Mars. Lowell is pictured here in the observer's chair of the 61-centimeter (24-inch) refracting telescope in the observatory he established in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell Observatory is still one of the foremost sites for telescopic studies of Mars and the other planets. The Canals of Mars 137 k GIF 43 k JPEG Percival Lowell made this globe of Mars summarizing his observations of the planet for the year 1901. - Loaned by Lowell Observatory The straight lines represent features that were first "seen" by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877. He called them canali , an Italian word meaning channels . The canali were also observed by Lowell who concluded they were canals built by intelligent beings. The canals supposedly supplied water from the melting polar caps to a desert world. In his book " Mars as the Abode of Life ", published in 1908, Percival Lowell presented his theory that Mars' canals were built by intelligent beings.

15. MARS By Percival Lowell MARS by percival lowell, 1895. Fellow American Academy; Member Royal Asiatic Society Great Britain and Ireland, etc. To. PROFESSOR WILLIAM EDWARD STORY http://www.wanderer.org/references/lowell/Mars/

This 100th anniversary HTML version produced by Eric Hutton, 1995. MARS by Percival Lowell, 1895. Fellow American Academy; Member Royal Asiatic Society Great Britain and Ireland, etc To PROFESSOR WILLIAM EDWARD STORY sometime at Flagstaff himself this news from a neighbor is inscribed Preface List of Illustrations CHAPTER I. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS As a Star Orbit Size and Shape CHAPTER II. ATMOSPHERE Evidence of it Clouds CHAPTER III. WATER The Polar Cap Areography Seas CHAPTER IV. CANALS First Appearances Map and Catalogue Artificiality Development CHAPTER IV. OASES Spots in the Light Regions Double Canals Spots in the Dark Regions CONCLUSION APPENDIX Map of Mars Index WebGlimpse Search Options Search: The neighborhood of this page The full archive Go to line

16. Percival Lowell www.lowell.edu/Research/library/paper/lowell.html lowell ObservatoryResearch, education and outreach, mission, star tales, and links. http://www.lowell.edu/Research/library/paper/lowell.html

Percival Lowell Percival Lowell was born on March 13, 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1872, he began studying at Harvard University, from which institution he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1876. He also received honorary LL.D degrees from Amherst College in 1907 and Clark University in 1909. Prior to 1883, Lowell devoted himself to business interests. Between 1883 and 1893, Lowell traveled throughout the Far East. He lived in Japan from time to time during this period, and wrote several books about his experiences in this area. He also served as the counselor and foreign secretary to the 1883 Special Mission from Korea to the United States, which was the first diplomatic group sent from Korea to any western power. Following this mission, Lowell stayed in Korea as a guest of the government for several months. Lowell was also a prolific writer. In addition to his articles and lectures, he published many books: A The Land of the MorningCalm The Soul of the Far East Noto Occult Japan Mars The Annals of Lowell Observatory (Vol. 1, 1898, Vol. 2, 1900)

17. Percival Lowell, percival lowell (18551916) was one of the best known observers of the planet Mars. He established an observatory (now lowell Observatory ) in Flagstaff, http://www.as.wvu.edu/~planet/marstalk/lowell.htm

P ercival L owell, M ars, a nd t he C anals T he Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877 was the first to report the presence on Mars of "canali" , an Italian word meaning naturally occurring channels , like river channels. P ercival Lowell (1855-1916) was one of the best known observers of the planet Mars. He established an observatory (now Lowell Observatory ) in Flagstaff, Arizona for the express purpose of observing the Martian "canali ", which Lowell mistranslated as "canals" . He concluded that these canals were built by intelligent beings to supposedly supply water from the melting polar caps to a desert world. Lowell at his 24 inch refracting telescope Lowell's Drawings of Mars Model of Lowell's Mars L owell's misunderstanding and overactive imagination led to the notion that Mars was inhabited by intelligent beings who were capable of planet wide engineering projects, and is the source of many science fiction stories about the red planet

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HowStuffWorks.com RSS Make HowStuffWorks your homepage Get Newsletter Search HowStuffWorks and the web: Encyclopedia Astronomy Biographies Learn about Biographies of Astronomers and get information on topics related to Biographies of Astronomers. Related Categories: REFERENCE LINKS PRINT EMAIL Lowell, Percival Lowell, Percival (1855-1916), an American astronomer, became best known for his belief in the possibility of life on Mars and in the existence of canals there. He began his career as a businessman. Soon, however, his interests turned to astronomy. In 1894, he completed the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. He wrote several books, which had wider popular appeal than scientific value. In 1905, his studies led him to try to predict the discovery of a planet beyond Neptune. He died on Nov. 12, 1916. The dwarf planet Pluto was first detected at the Lowell Observatory after his death (see Pluto ). Lowell was born on March 13, 1855, in Boston. Related Topics: Lowell, Percival (1855-1916), an American astronomer, became best known for his belief in the possibility of life on Mars and in the existence of... Halley, HAL ee, Edmond (1656-1742), also spelled Edmund, was an English astronomer noted for his work on comets. He calculated the orbit of a comet...

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Percival Lowell's Quest P ercival Lowell was born into an aristocratic Boston family, studied mathematics at Harvard, and made a fortune in business. After traveling for ten years to the Far East as a travel writer and serving as a foreign secretary, he settled down to the serious pursuit of astronomy. Lowell had become interested in studying what he thought were artificial canals on Mars, and in 1894 established the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Mars wasn't the only planet that interested him, and in 1905, he began a search for the ninth planet. Besides being able to apply his mathematical skills, Lowell had his own observatory at his disposal, something John Couch Adams had lacked when he predicted Neptune's position. Lowell's staff conducted a photographic survey of the sky, with Lowell's calculations thrown in to help narrow the search. Lowell initially kept his search a secret, so that others might not steal his project. However, when the extreme difficulties of finding a planet became evident, Lowell was no longer worried about an opportunistic astronomer taking the glory, and by 1908 was publicly calling his elusive quarry "Planet X." By 1908, William Pickering was also conducting a search for what he called "Planet O." Pickering had helped Lowell set up his observatory, though he became rather critical of Lowell's ideas that Mars held intelligent life.

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