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Extractions: Percival Lowell Born a wealthy Boston aristocrat, Percival Lowell was an amateur astronomer passionately committed to finding proof of intelligent life on Mars. In 1894, the people of Flagstaff, Arizona welcomed Lowell and his dream to build an astronomical research observatory atop Mars Hill. Lowell's observatory would begin the now long-standing tradition of astronomical discovery in Arizona. More than a century later, Lowell Observatory is one of the largest privately operated non-profit astronomical research observatories in the world. Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1876 with distinction in mathematics. He came from a well-known family; his brother, Abbott, was president of Harvard and his sister, Amy, was a famous poet and critic who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926. Percival Lowell traveled extensively in the Orient before he finally decided on a career in astronomy. In 1894, he founded an observatory that would change the course of astronomy. Atop Mars Hill, at Flagstaff's rarefied elevation of 7,000 feet, Lowell launched research on a number of projects. Flagstaff's sky conditions were perfect for night observing, and the ongoing work at Lowell's observatory led to discoveries such as the planet Pluto and the first evidence of the expanding universe. Lowell spent 15 years intensively studying Mars. By viewing the surface of Mars through the 24-inch Clark Telescope, Lowell produced intricate drawings of the Red Planet, delineating hundreds of straight lines and their intersections (which Lowell called "oases"). Lowell concluded that the bright areas were deserts and the dark were patches of vegetation. He further believed that water from the melting polar cap flowed down the canals toward the equatorial region to revive the vegetation. Lowell believed the canals were constructed by intelligent beings who once flourished on Mars. He published his views in three books:
Biography - Percival Lowell
Percival Lowell (18551916). Latest Modification June 20, 1996 PercivalLowell came from a distinguished New England family.
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Extractions: Latest Modification: June 20, 1996 Percival Lowell came from a distinguished New England family. His younger brother Abbott was president of Harvard University, and his sister Amy was a well-known poet and critic. After his graduation from Harvard in 1876, with distinction in mathematics, he traveled for a number of years throughout the Far East before settling down to a career in astronomy. He was particularly interested in Mars and its "canals," of which drawings by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli had received wide public attention. In 1894 he founded the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona. Its altitude of some 7000 feet and its dry desert air made it an excellent observing site for the study of Mars, which was then close to the Earth. During 15 years of intensive study of Mars, whose surface markings he drew in intricate detail, Lowell pressed for acceptance of the network of several hundred fine, straight lines he drew on his maps and their intersection in a number of "oases." Lowell concluded that the bright areas were deserts and the dark ones patches of vegetation and that water from the melting polar cap flowed down the canals toward the equatorial region to revive the vegetation. He supposed the canals to have been constructed by intelligent beings who once flourished on Mars. Lowell published his views in three books: Mars Mars and Its Canals (1906), and
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Percival Lowell The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahminby David Strauss, published by Harvard University Press.
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Extractions: 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.
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Percival Lowell. Mars. SSL Library Home.
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Biography - Percival Lowell
Short biography.
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Extractions: Latest Modification: June 20, 1996 Percival Lowell came from a distinguished New England family. His younger brother Abbott was president of Harvard University, and his sister Amy was a well-known poet and critic. After his graduation from Harvard in 1876, with distinction in mathematics, he traveled for a number of years throughout the Far East before settling down to a career in astronomy. He was particularly interested in Mars and its "canals," of which drawings by the Italian astronomer Schiaparelli had received wide public attention. In 1894 he founded the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona. Its altitude of some 7000 feet and its dry desert air made it an excellent observing site for the study of Mars, which was then close to the Earth. During 15 years of intensive study of Mars, whose surface markings he drew in intricate detail, Lowell pressed for acceptance of the network of several hundred fine, straight lines he drew on his maps and their intersection in a number of "oases." Lowell concluded that the bright areas were deserts and the dark ones patches of vegetation and that water from the melting polar cap flowed down the canals toward the equatorial region to revive the vegetation. He supposed the canals to have been constructed by intelligent beings who once flourished on Mars. Lowell published his views in three books: Mars Mars and Its Canals (1906), and
Mars / Lowell, Percival
lowell, percival . Mars / lowell, percival. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
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The Planet Mars: A History Of Observation And Discovery. Chapter 7: Lowell. Univ
Book by William Sheehan includes a chapter devoted to lowell and his theories about life on Mars. Includes a photo of the scientist. business of his paternal grandfather, John Amory lowell, percival lowell would later work and amass his own fortune.
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Extractions: Lowell The next opposition of Mars after 1892 occurred on October 20, 1894. At 41 million miles (65 million km), Mars was slightly farther away from the Earth than it had been in 1892. But the greater distance was more than offset by the red planet's greater altitude in northern skies. Indeed, this proved to be one of the most memorable oppositions in the history of Martian exploration-not least because of the emergence on the scene of Percival Lowell, of whom one of his biographers rightly said that "of all the men through history who have posed questions and proposed answers about Mars, [he was] the most influential and by all odds the most controversial." Ideas about Martian life had been floated by Schiaparelli, Flammarion, and others, but it was left to Lowell to fashion them into a coherent whole. Percival Lowell was born in Boston on March 13, 1855, the eldest son of Augustus and Katharine Bigelow Lowell (fig. 12). There was blue blood on both sides of the family. An ancestor, Percival Lowle, had come to what later became known as Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1639. A Bristol merchant, Lowle had followed John Winthrop, the "Lodestone of America," to the Massachusetts Bay Colony at the advanced age of sixty-seven-an undertaking that attests to the almost manic energy that characterized many of his descendants as well. In addition to their energy, the Lowells tended to exhibit talents for mathematics and literature. Percival Lowell had both in unusual degree, as well as a personal magnetism that many who knew him remarked. Thus journalist Ferris Greenslet wrote: "This reporter has met many of the so-called great men of his time, but none with a more potent personal quality than Percival Lowell. He agrees with another witness that one felt it before, or almost before, he entered the room. It was as if one had been suddenly deposited in a powerful magnetic field."
Full Text Of Mars By Percival Lowell
Mars. Table of contents. Preface. List of Illustrations. Chapter 1. Chapter2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Conclusion. Appendix. Map of Mars. Index.
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Xrefer - Lowell, Percival (1855 - 1916)
Short biography from A Dictionary of Scientists, Oxford University Press, focused on his work in astronomy.
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Extractions: from Oxford University Press Lowell, Percival American astronomer Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1876. His first interest was oriental studies but Giovanni Schiaparelli 's report in 1877 of the 'canali' (mistranslated as 'canals') of Mars had interested him and he finally decided to devote the rest of his life to astronomy. As he was a member of a famous, aristocratic, and wealthy Boston family, he had no difficulty in financing his own observatory. He built it at a height of 7200 feet (2200 m) in the clear skies of Arizona, giving him good observing conditions, and began his studies of the planets in 1894. He was appointed professor of astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1902.
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