Mars and Its Canals

Author: Percival Lowell

Genre: *Non-fiction, Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark nights. Sometimes they saw saw more than there really was to see, and a bit over 100 years ago Percival Lowell published books on what he was sure were canals on Mars, signs of intelligent civilization. (In case you too are skeptical, we also have at Librivox a criticism of Lowell's theories in a book published a year later (in 1907) by Alfred Russel Wallace.) - Summary by ToddHW

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PrefaceOn ExplorationA Departure-pointA Bird’s-eye View of Past Martian DiscoveryThe Polar CapsBehavior of the Polar CapsMartian Polar ExpeditionsWhite SpotsClimate and WeatherMountains and CloudThe Blue-green AreasVegetationTerraqueousness and TerrestrialityThe Reddish-ochre TractsSummaryThe CanalsTheir SystemGemination of the CanalsThe Double Canals, Parts 1 and 2The Double Canals, Parts 3 and 4Canals in the Dark RegionsOasesCarets on the Borders of the Great DiaphragmThe Canals PhotographedCanals: KinematicCanal Development Individually InstancedHibernation of the CanalsArctic Canals and Polar RiftsOases: KinematicConstitution of the Canals and OasesLifeEvidenceThe Husbanding of WaterConclusion

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