Percival Lowell - Wikipedia
网页Percival Lowell (/ ˈ l oʊ əl /; March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System.
Percival Lowell | Mars Exploration, Planetary Science & Astronomy
网页Percival Lowell (born March 13, 1855, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 12, 1916, Flagstaff, Ariz.) was an American astronomer who predicted the existence of a planet beyond the orbit of Neptune and initiated the search that ended in the discovery of Pluto.
Percival Lowell Biography | Space
网页2013年2月13日 · Let's learn more about the cultured businessman whose sudden attraction to the red planet led him into a love affair with the worlds beyond our own. Early life. Percival Lawrence Lowell was...
Percival Lowell: Astronomer Who Looked for Life on Mars
网页2019年7月3日 · Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman and astronomer born into Boston's wealthy Lowell family. He devoted much of his life to the search for life on Mars, which he conducted from the observatory he …
Lowell, Percival (1855-1916) - Harvard Square Library
网页The Biography of Amy Lowell. Percival Lowell, an astronomer, was a member of a Boston Unitarian family, which included his older brother, A. Lawrence Lowell, who became president of Harvard, and his sister Amy Lowell, the Imagist poet.
The Life and Times of Percival Lowell
网页2023年9月5日 · The man, the myth, the founder. In this episode of Star Stuff, we talk about how Percival Lowell made history by founding Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and how he was one of the first popularized alien hunters in astronomy.
The story of Percival Lowell: This Week in ... - Astronomy Magazine
网页2024年3月11日 · Percival Lowell, born into wealth and influence, had an outsized role in shaping views of the solar system in the fin-de-siècle popular imagination. Credit:...
Percival Lowell’s Search for Life on Mars - Lowell Observatory
网页2024年8月5日 · In the 1890s, Lowell Observatory founder Percival Lowell became inspired by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli’s 1877 description of canali, or channels, on the surface of Mars. As a result, he decided to devote his fortune and energy to the study of Mars and the possibility of life on its surface.
Tracing the Canals of Mars: An Astronomer's Obsession | Space
网页2011年10月6日 · The man who 'discovered civilization' on Mars. These immense illusory earthworks (Marsworks?) had been studied in detail by one of the greatest astronomers of the late nineteenth and early...
Percival Lowell | People | The Collection of Historical Scientific ...
网页Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was an astronomer, who is best known for fueling speculation that there were canals on Mars. In 1893, he founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.