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Percival Lowell

Lowell, Percival Lawrence

March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916 (aged 61)

Birth place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1906 Nonfiction Mars and Its Canals Percival Lowell
1908 Nonfiction Mars As the Abode of Life Percival Lowell


Founder of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA; "Lowell published his views in three books: Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1906), and Mars as the Abode of Life (1908). With these writings, Lowell more than anyone else popularized the long-held belief that these markings showed that Mars sustained intelligent life forms." --Wikipedia
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