[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #2777, aired 1996-10-01 [PAR] In a 1908 book Percival Lowell proposed that its surface markings were irrigation 
... a probe from the Galileo spacecraft plunged into this planet's atmosphere... [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 ... InRed Planet (1949), colonists use the frozen canals for travel and a 
.... A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals"
,... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack [PAR] IN A 1908 BOOK, PERCIVAL LOWELL PROPOSED THAT THE MARKINGS ON 
THIS PLANET WERE IRRIGATION CANALS, MARS. THE CRAB NEBULA WAS... [DOC] [TLE] Tracing the Canals of Mars: An Astronomer's Obsession - Space.com [PAR] Oct 6, 2011 ... ... spacecraft suggest water may periodically appear on the planet's surface. Over 
100 years ago, Percival Lowell thought the canals on Mars were evidence of ... 
icecaps at the Red Planet's poles to irrigate a world that was drying out. ... "Mars 
and Its Canals" (1906), and "Mars As the Abode of Life" (1908). [DOC] [TLE] Percival Lowell: the sage as astronomer - Research Online [PAR] SUMMARY. Percival Lowell's controversial hypothesis (1895) that Mars was 
inhabited by ... In view of Lowell's later efforts to locate a ninth planet, it is .... 
Analysis of Lowell's Asian books later in this thesis will expand on this idea, and 
identify ... vegetation which intelligent Martians were growing by irrigation from 
canals. [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 
... What Lowell proposed in effect was to combine astronomical observations with 
... In this regard, geology and biology, which were concerned with development, 
.... For both Lowell and Morse, then, the surface markings of the Earth provided a
... [DOC] [TLE] Link to PDF - University of New Mexico [PAR] popular interest in the possibility that the red planet might be inhabited. ... 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. [DOC] [TLE] Mars: The history of a master illusionist - Society for the History of ... [PAR] nature of the planet, and describe the implications of the canals' tendency to .... 
were books about Mars. I knew ... 1: Detail from one of Percival Lowell's maps of 
Mars, criss-crossed with the ... strange visitants are as real as the main markings, 
..... the French astronomer Camille Flammarion proposed; ..... MacMillan, 1908), p
. [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 narratives. ..... Figure 2.7 Mars 1896-7, by Percival Lowell, 1897 . ... 
Figure 4.1 Data showing seasonal canal visibility, 1908. ...... 42 David Gill, The 
nomenclature of markings on Mars, Astronomical Register 17 (1879): 95. (Italics. [DOC] [TLE] The Antiquarian Astronomer [PAR] markings on the planet's red surface that he termed canali; and on ... Right: 
Percival Lowell's favourite portrait, taken about 1910 at a studio on .... were books 
about Mars. I knew ...... the French astronomer Camille Flammarion proposed; .... 
irrigation canals  the set of features that Schiaparelli ..... MacMillan, 1908), p. 
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Question: In a 1908 book, Percival Lowell proposed that the markings on this planet were irrigation canals
Answer: Mars