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Martian canals, Venusian spokes probably Lowell's retina
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There's been vindication, of a sort, for early 20th-century
astronomer Percival Lowell.
The Boston Brahman who built the famous observatory named after
himself in Flagstaff, Ariz., and who recognized (before this age of
orbiting telescopes) the advantage of viewing the heavens where the
air was thin and dry, has gone down in history as a fool.
His story is told in detail in John Noble Wilford's 1990 book,
"Mars Beckons."
Lowell saw, or thought he saw, an elaborate network of canals on
the surface of Mars. He wasn't the first to make this observation. In
1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni ...
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