[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack [PAR] ITS PERIGEE, THE CLOSEST IT CAN COME TO EARTH, IS 221,456 MILES, 
MOON .... AT -235 DEGREES C. THE SURFACE OF THIS PLANET'S MOON, 
TRITON, IS THE COLDEST ... IN A 1908 BOOK, PERCIVAL LOWELL 
PROPOSED THAT THE MARKINGS ON THIS PLANET WERE IRRIGATION 
CANALS, MARS. [DOC] [TLE] Percival Lowell - Wikipedia [PAR] Percival Lawrence Lowell was an American businessman, author, ... Lowell 
published his views in three books: Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1906), and 
Mars As the Abode of Life (1908). ... Many astronomers could not see these 
markings, and few believed that they were as extensive as... [DOC] [TLE] Martian canal - Wikipedia [PAR] For a time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed 
that there were .... The idea that Schiaparelli's canali were really irrigation canals 
made by .... A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and 
its canals", with an alternative explanation, by Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., etc. [DOC] [TLE] Percival Lowell: the sage as astronomer - Research Online [PAR] Percival Lowell's controversial hypothesis (1895) that Mars was inhabited by .... 
material for some journalism and his first book: Choson: Land of the Morning 
Calm (1885) ... refused to offer or endorse any speculative theory about these 
markings. ... vegetation which intelligent Martians were growing by irrigation from 
canals. [DOC] [TLE] Is Mars Habitable?, by Alfred Russel Wallace [PAR] A Critical Examination of Professor Lowell's Book "Mars and Its Canals," With an 
Alternative ... Mars the only planet the surface of which is distinctly visible--Early 
... on Mars and its canals, 1906--Non-natural features--The canals as irrigation 
works ... The most obvious peculiarity of this planet--its polar snow-caps--were 
seen... [DOC] [TLE] "Fireflies Flashing in Unison": Percival Lowell, Edward Morse and ... [PAR] Within the next three years, Lowell wrote two books that offered a bold approach 
... In this regard, geology and biology, which were concerned with development, 
seemed ... However, even a cursory review of the proposal in its historical context 
.... For both Lowell and Morse, then, the surface markings of the Earth provided a
... [DOC] [TLE] Percival Lowell - WikiVisually [PAR] Lowell published his views in three books: Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals ... 
see these markings, and few believed that they were as extensive as Lowell 
claimed. ... Although Lowell's theories of the Martian canals, of surface features 
on ..... as to propose the idea that the canals were irrigation canals built by a 
supposed... [DOC] [TLE] Imaginative Geographies of Mars - University of Texas Libraries [PAR] planet in many of the same ways that Earth's own desert regions were portrayed 
in imperial ..... Figure 2.7 Mars 1896-7, by Percival Lowell, 1897 . ... Figure 3.2 
The San Francisco Peaks, printed in Mars and its Canals, 1906 ........ 122 ..... 
referring to Mars' surface geography after 187710), these maps served a complex
. [DOC] [TLE] Mars: The history of a master illusionist - Society for the History of ... [PAR] robotic craft in orbit around and on the surface of the planet itself. 1. ... were 
books about Mars. ... 1: Detail from one of Percival Lowell's maps of Mars, criss-
crossed with the delicate tracery of ... ment with which I read Lowell's Mars and Its 
Canals. ... strange visitants are as real as the main markings, ...... MacMillan, 
1908), p. [DOC] [TLE] Link to PDF - University of New Mexico [PAR] society on Mars, eventually producing a full-fledged mania over the canals, ... 
astronomer Percival Lowellin flouting scientific norms and courting public 
audiences, ... habitability were presented in the quintessential geographical 
formatthe map. .... surface mottled with barely perceptible delicate markings, 
Schiaparelli... [DOC] [TLE] Mars facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about ... [PAR] To some, these were evidence of water canals dug into

Question: In a 1908 book Percival Lowell proposed that its surface markings were irrigation canals
Answer: Mars