Lowell, Percival (1855-1916)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3824. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Businessman, traveler, diplomat and, eventually, astronomer, born in Boston, MA, into a distinguished family (younger brother a president of Harvard University, sister a writer). His boyhood interest in astronomy revived at the age of 37, when after correspondence with WILLIAM H PICKERING they set up an expedition to observe the 1894 Mars opposition from the clear skies of Arizona. They founded t...

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