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1239: 535: 336: 410:, Schiaparelli wrote: "Rather than true channels in a form familiar to us, we must imagine depressions in the soil that are not very deep, extended in a straight direction for thousands of miles, over a width of 100, 200 kilometres and maybe more. I have already pointed out that, in the absence of rain on Mars, these channels are probably the main mechanism by which the water (and with it organic life) can spread on the dry surface of the planet." 33: 419: 1204: 384:, who spent much of his life trying to prove the existence of intelligent life on the red planet. After Lowell's death in 1916, astronomers developed a consensus against the canal hypothesis, but the popular concept of Martian canals excavated by intelligent Martians remained in the public mind for the first half of the 20th century and inspired a corpus of works of classic 371:
that the observed features were natural configurations of the planetary surface. From the incorrect translation into the term "canals", various assumptions were made about life on Mars; as these assumptions were popularized, the "canals" of Mars became famous, giving rise to waves of hypotheses,
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photographed the surface with much higher resolution than Earth-based telescopes, confirming that there are no structures resembling "canals".
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Defrancesco, S. (April 1988). "Schiaparelli's determination of the rotation period of Mercury: a re-examination".
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Schiaparelli was a scholar of the history of classical astronomy. He was the first to realize that the
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Sulla determinazione della posizione geografica dei luoghi per mezzo di osservazioni astronomiche
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in Italian, meaning "channels", but the term was mistranslated into English as "canals".
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Obituaries: G. V. Schiaparelli, J. G. Galle, J. B. N. Hennessey J. Coles, J. E. Gore,
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While the term "canals" indicates an artificial construction, the term "channels"
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Later, with notable thanks to the observations of the Italian astronomer
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Among Schiaparelli's contributions are his telescopic observations of
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Sulla distribuzione apparente delle stelle visibili ad occhio nudo
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Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (4062) Schiaparelli
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Italian astronomer and science historian (1835–1910)
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"(69) Hesperia". 662:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 464:, discovered the large main-belt asteroid 428: 301:, and then worked for over forty years at 262:[dʒoˈvannivirˈdʒiːnjoskjapaˈrɛlli] 20: 1100:"ESA Names ExoMars Lander 'Schiaparelli'" 854: 852: 334: 1240:Works by or about Giovanni Schiaparelli 1231:Works by Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli 1192:, Vol. 33, p. 311–318, August 1910 1185:, biography from www.daviddarling.info. 1169:"Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio"  860:"Cosmic Errors: Martians Build Canals!" 738: 877:"Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)" 655: 633:, became a noted designer or maker of 795: 793: 260: 7: 1320:Foreign members of the Royal Society 697:(in Italian). Milano: Hoepli. 1889. 1098:Patterson, Sean (8 November 2013). 687:(in Italian). 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Savigliano
Kingdom of Sardinia
Milan
Italy
Italian
Astronomy
ForMemRS
HFRSE
/ˌskæpəˈrɛli,ˌʃæp-/
SKAP-ə-REL-ee, SHAP-
US
/skiˌɑːp-/
skee-AHP-
[dʒoˈvannivirˈdʒiːnjoskjapaˈrɛlli]
astronomer
science historian
University of Turin
Berlin Observatory
Encke
Pulkovo Observatory
St Petersburg
Brera
Milan
Kingdom of Italy
Accademia dei Lincei
Mars
Martian canals

Mars

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