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23. Lowell, James Russell -- Lowell, Percival: In Cornell University's Making Of Ame lowell, percival, Mercury in the Light of Recent Discoveries. The Atlantic Monthly, vol. lowell, percival, Noto An Unexplored Corner of Japan. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.author/l.268.html

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26. VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Percival Lowell Today, we tell about percival lowell whose work led to the discovery of the planet Pluto. His efforts and imagination helped change the history of astronomy http://www.manythings.org/voa/02/020210pa_t.htm

PEOPLE IN AMERICA - February 10, 2002: Percival Lowell By Mario Ritter VOICE ONE: I'm Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today, we tell about Percival Lowell whose work led to the discovery of the planet Pluto. His efforts and imagination helped change the history of astronomy in America. ((THEME)) VOICE ONE: Percival Lowell came from a New England family with a long history in America. The Lowell family first came to the colony of Massachussetts in Sixteen-Thirty-Nine. One of Percival Lowell's ancestors, John Cabot Lowell, manufactured cloth. He became an important American industrialist in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. Percival's father, Augustus Lowell, worked in the family cloth business. He settled his family in Boston, Massachusetts. Percival was born there in Eighteen-Fifty-Five. He had a younger brother, Abbott Lawrence and a younger sister, Amy. VOICE TWO: Percival Lowell attended American and European private schools as a young man. He studied mathematics at Harvard University. After he finished his studies at Harvard in Eighteen-Seventy-Six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year. Then he worked as a financial officer in the cloth business of his grandfather. After several years, Percival realized he was not happy as a businessman. So he decided to travel to Japan to study its culture and language. While there, he was asked to go with a special trade group from Korea to establish trade relations with the United States.

27. Harvard University Press: Percival Lowell : The Culture And Science Of A Boston percival lowell The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin by David Strauss, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/STRPER.html

Home Ordering Search/Browse Contact ... HUP Percival Lowell The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin David Strauss This engaging and wide-ranging biography casts new light on the life and careers of Percival Lowell. Scion of a wealthy Boston family, elder brother of Harvard President Lawrence and poet Amy, Percival Lowell is best remembered as the astronomer who claimed that intelligent beings had built a network of canals on Mars. But the Lowell who emerges in David Strauss's finely textured portrait was a polymath: not just a self-taught astronomer, but a shrewd investor, skilled photographer, inspired public speaker, and adventure-travel writer whose popular books contributed to an awakening American interest in Japan. Strauss shows that Lowell consistently followed the same intellectual agenda. One of the principal American disciples of Herbert Spencer, Lowell, in his investigations of Japanese culture, set out to confirm Spencer's notion that Westerners were the highest expression of the evolutionary process. In his brilliant defense of the canals on Mars, Lowell drew on Spencer's claim that planets would develop life-supporting atmospheres over time. Strauss's charming, somewhat bittersweet tale is the story of a rebellious Boston Brahmin whose outsider mentality, deep commitment to personal freedom, and competence in two cultures all contributed to the very special character of his careers, first as a cultural analyst and then more memorably as an astronomer.

28. Sea And Sky: Percival Lowell Albert Einstein is perhaps one of the most well known faces in the field of physics and one of the most famous scientists of the twentieth century. http://www.seasky.org/spacexp/sky5e12.html

Enter your search terms Submit search form Web www.seasky.org Founder of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, strong supporter of the theory of canals on the planet Mars, first to realize the possibility of a ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune. Percival Lowell was born in 1855 to a distinguished New England family. His younger brother was president of Harvard University and his sister was a well-known writer. Lowell also attended Harvard and graduated in 1876 with a distinction in mathematics. After traveling in the Far East for a number of years, he eventually developed a fond interest in astronomy. He was particularly interested in Mars and its "canals" that had supposedly been discovered by the Italian astronomer, Schaparelli. In 1894, Lowell founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The observatory was ideally situated at an altitude of 7000 feet. The high altitude combined with the dry desert air made this site ideal for observing Mars, which was at that time very close to the Earth. Lowell observed the red planet for 15 years. He made intricate and detailed drawings of the planet's surface showing a complex network of intersecting lines and dark regions. Lowell believed these lines to be canals built by an advanced civilization of intelligent beings. He asserted that these canals were being used by a desperate race to transport precious water from the planet's icy poles. The dark regions were believed to be oases of green vegetation made possible by the irrigating canals. Lowell published these theories in three books:

29. ERBzine 1414: Matching Mars: Lost Canals Of Percival Lowell By Den Valdron 1892 and 1894 were the crucial times during which percival lowell made his critical observations and wrote his popular book on Mars, a book that Edgar Rice http://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1414.html

Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute Site Since 1996 ~ Over 5,000 Webpages in Archive Presents Volume 1414 MATCHING MARS, THE LOST CANALS OF PERCIVAL LOWELL by Den Valdron Part of the Exploring Barsoom Series Edgar Rice Burroughs was inspired to write about Mars, not as a subject of fantasy, but rather on the basis of the science of the time. Earth’s telescopes could study the moon and see nothing but more and more craters, an obviously dead world without even the whisps of clouds or seas. Venus was permanently obscured by clouds. Mercury was too close to the sun for observations, and the gas giants too remote. But Mars? Mars was always an intriguing world. The first recorded formal observation of it was by Aristotle in 356 B.C. Galileo turned his telescope on Mars in 1610, recording the phases of the planet. It was a favourite even in the early days of telescopes, for the 17th century astronomers. Fontana made the first sketch of the red planet. Huyghens in 1666 determined the length of the Martian day, followed in the same year by Cassini’s description of the polar caps. Fontana sketches and Cassini's Mars Huygen's Mars Oddly red in colour, astronomers could train their telescopes upon it and make out actual surface features, and more than that, they could observe changes, marking the progress of seasons. They could discern the white polar caps and watch them swell and retreat over the Martian year good evidence there for ice of some sort, almost certainly water ice. They could occasionally spot clouds, and see when dust storms obscured the entire surface of the planet, clear evidence of a reasonable atmosphere.

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31. Intelligent Design The Future: Percival Lowell, Mars And Intelligent Design Today s Google icon pays homage to percival lowell, the 19th century astronomer who popularized the notion that there were Martianmade canals on the http://www.idthefuture.com/2006/03/percival_lowell_mars_and_intel.html

Michael Behe William Dembski Guillermo Gonzalez Steve Meyer ... Jonathan Witt Send an email to us at: idthefuture@discovery.org Michael Ruse, Crossdresser Thomas Nagel Critiques Dawkins: The Design-Cannot-Possibly-Be-True Argument The Hits Just Keep on Coming ... Main Percival Lowell, Mars and Intelligent Design Jonathan Witt Today's Google icon pays homage to Percival Lowell, the 19th century astronomer who popularized the notion that there were Martian-made canals on the surface of Mars and, therefore, Martians. The larger story surrounding his famous blunder discredits the idea that science moves inexorably forward, with never a major backward step. Lowell, following the scientific consensus of his day, believed that Earth was unremarkable in the universe, and that since it was unremarkable, the rest of the solar system and universe must be teeming with intelligent life. Astronomers now know that this assumptioncalled the Principle of Mediocrityis false. Most immediately, Earth and the advanced life it holds are unique in the solar system. Whether there are alien civilizations in other parts of the universe is beyond the reach of contemporary science to determine, but already astrobiologists know that Earth is in fact a very unusual place in the galaxy, with a myriad of finely tuned conditions

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33. Lowell, Percival. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language: Fo lowell, percival. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition. 2000. http://www.bartleby.com/61/79/L0267900.html

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34. Percival Lowell@Everything2.com percival lowell (18551916), Wealthy american astronomer who founded his own observatory and spent much time studying planets, especially Mars. http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=130499

35. The Nine Planets Glossary Foremost among these was percival lowell, who carried matters far beyond Schiaparelli. scopulus lobate or irregular scarp. semimajor axis the semimajor http://www.nineplanets.org/help.html

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36. :: Munseys: Percival Lowell not available. Tags No Tags......lowell, percival I. Observations of the planet Mars during the opposition of 18945, lowell, percival http://www.munseys.com/detail/mode/author/Percival_Lowell

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38. The “Conjunction” Of Frank Seagrave And Percival Lowell One, and only one, carried a statement which read, “It was percival lowell’s wish, that when his planet “X” was discovered, his friend Frank Seagrave would http://www.theskyscrapers.org/content3499.html

Skip navigation The “Conjunction” of Frank Seagrave and Percival Lowell Related Resources Lowell Observatory/Arizona Trip 2005 Gallery Slideshow Related Links Lowell Observatory David Huestis Soon after I joined Skyscrapers, which is now more than 31 years ago, I became very interested in the history of our organization and the legacy of Frank Evans Seagrave. On occasion, long time member and then Skyscraper Historian Bill Gucfa would present a few historical tidbits at one of our monthly meetings about this noted astronomer and his accomplishments. Bill and I were kindred spirits from the start, and we became good friends. Since Bill had little or no spare time to do further research, he encouraged me to carry the torch. At Bill’s direction I visited the Rhode Island Historical Society’s library where I found many articles by and about Seagrave among the microfiched archives of The Providence Journal. Much of the initial information I gleaned about Frank Seagrave came from an article published in the August 16, 1934 edition of The Providence Journal. That story announced Frank Seagrave’s death on the evening before, following a major operation. He was 75 years old. After reading the Journal’s recap of Seagrave’s life and achievements, I became intrigued with this individual for whom our observatory is named. More and more articles were uncovered as I tediously cross-referenced the many reels of microfiche. One, and only one, carried a statement which read, “It was Percival Lowell’s wish, that when his planet “X” was discovered, his friend Frank Seagrave would compute its orbit.” I never saw this information reported in any other article, nor in any of the letters I researched in the collection of E.C. Pickering up at Harvard. It might be in there somewhere. The collection is quite vast, since Pickering was Director of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) from 1877 until 1919.

39. Mars In The Mind Of Earth: Books -Non Fiction Full List lowell, percival. Mars. History of Astronomy Reprints, 1978 lowell, percival. Mars as the Abode of Life. New York Macmillan, 1908, 1st edition. 288 p. http://www.marsearth.com/books/lowe.html

Lowell, Percival Back to Subjects Comments and suggestions Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes Hoyt, WIlliam Graves. Lowell and Mars. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona 1st ed. Also published in trade paperback, 1976 and 1996. The best biography of Lowell, with good discussion of his influence. 376 p. Lowell, Percival. Mars. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Lowell, Percival. Mars. London: Longman, Green and Co. Lowell, Percival. Mars. History of Astronomy Reprints Lowell, Percival. Mars. Elibron Classics Lowell, Percival. Mars. Waterbury, CT: Brohan Lowell, Percival. Mars and Its Canals. New York: Macmillan 1st edition. 393 p. 2nd of the three major books by Lowell about Mars. There was a second printing in August 1907, and it was still being printed as of 1911. Lowell, Percival.

40. Percival Lowell Had Been Inspired By The Work Of Giovanni Schiaparelli, A 19th C percival lowell had been inspired by the work of Giovanni Schiaparelli, a 19th century Italian astronomer who had observed lines on Mars that he had called http://prion.bchs.uh.edu/Mars/Percival_Lowell.htm

Percival Lowell had been inspired by the work of Giovanni Schiaparelli , a 19 th century Italian astronomer who had observed lines on Mars that he had called canali , Italian for channels Unfortunately, Lowell and several other English-speaking astronomers had read an article in which canali had been mistranslated as canals In 1894, Lowell, an upper-class New Englander, moved to Arizona and built an observatory in the mountains, where he began spending his evenings looking through his telescope and sketching surface features of Mars as he saw them. Pictures from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/mars/percival.html Lowell soon decided that there were indeed canals and reasoned that he, and Schiaparelli before him, must have been observing areas of vegetation growing along waterways that were so straight they had to have been constructed by intelligent beings. Lowell concluded that Mars’ smaller size as compared to that of Earth had caused it to develop more quickly and, consequently, to enter into a decline. The inhabitants, Lowell reasoned, were highly advanced and engaged in a desperate engineering feat to save their world, which was now drying out.

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