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Originally published in 1894.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This new set from Edition Synapse represents a complete collection of Percival Lowell’s writings on Asia (primarily on Japan and Korea) including fourteen journal and newspaper articles and transcribed letters to his sister and a leading imagist poet of the time Amy Lowell and Lafcadio Hearn.

Travelling widely in Japan and Korea in the 1880s and 1890s, he published the works collected here which influenced Lafcadio Hearn and his books on Japan. His books such as ‘Choson’, ‘Noto’ and ‘Occult Japan’ were read widely amongst the American intellectual community at the end of the nineteenth century and played an important role for the formation of the early American image on East Asia. Edited by Davis Strauss, author of Percival Lowell: the Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin (Harvard Univ. Press, 2001) , this set also contains a descriptive introduction for each article.

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Chapters: Haumea (Dwarf Planet), Makemake, Pluto, Plutoid Satellites, Clyde Tombaugh, Percival Lowell, Roger Putnam, Controversy Over the Discovery of Haumea, Dysnomia, Venetia Burney, Solar Eclipses on Pluto, Plutoed. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 134. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as a planet, Pluto is now considered the largest member of a distinct population called the Kuiper belt. Like other members of the Kuiper belt, Pluto is composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small: approximately a fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon and a third its volume. It has an eccentric and highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU (4.47.4 billion km) from the Sun. This causes Pluto to periodically come closer to the Sun than Neptune. From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, Pluto was considered the Solar System's ninth planet. In the late 1970s, following the discovery of minor planet 2060 Chiron in the outer Solar System and the recognition of Pluto's very low mass, its status as a major planet began to be questioned. Later, in the early 21st century, many objects similar to Pluto were discovered in the outer Solar System, notably the scattered disc object Eris, which is 27% more massive than Pluto. On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined the term "planet" for the first time. This definition excluded Pluto as a planet, and added it as a member of the new category "dwarf planet" along with Eris and Ceres. After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of minor planets and given the number 134340. A number of scientists continue to hol...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=44469 ... Read more

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This small volume was commenced as a review article on Professor Percival Lowell's book, _Mars and its Canals_, with the object of showing that the large amount of new and interesting facts contained in this work did not invalidate the conclusion I had reached in 1902, and stated in my book on _Man's Place in the Universe_, that Mars was not habitable.

But the more complete presentation of the opposite view in the volume now under discussion required a more detailed examination of the various physical problems involved, and as the subject is one of great, popular, as well as scientific interest, I determined to undertake the task.

This was rendered the more necessary by the fact that in July last Professor Lowell published in the _Philosophical Magazine_ an elaborate mathematical article claiming to demonstrate that, notwithstanding its much greater distance from the sun and its excessively thin atmosphere, Mars possessed a climate on the average equal to that of the south of England, and in its polar and sub-polar regions even less severe than that of the earth. Such a contention of course required to be dealt with, and led me to collect information bearing upon temperature in all its aspects, and so enlarging my criticism that I saw it would be necessary to issue it in book form.

Two of my mathematical friends have pointed out the chief omission which vitiates Professor Lowell's mathematical conclusions--that of a failure to recognise the very large conservative and _cumulative_ effect of a dense atmosphere. This very point however I had already myself discussed in Chapter VI., and by means of some remarkable researches on the heat of the moon and an investigation of the causes of its very low temperature, I have, I think, demonstrated the incorrectness of Mr. Lowell's results. In my last chapter, in which I briefly summarise the whole argument, I have further strengthened the case for very severe cold in Mars, by adducing the rapid lowering of temperature universally caused by diminution of atmospheric pressure, as manifested in the well-known phenomenon of temperate climates at moderate heights even close to the equator, cold climates at greater heights even on extensive plateaux, culminating in arctic climates and perpetual snow at heights where the air is still far denser than it is on the surface of Mars. This argument itself is, in my opinion, conclusive; but it is enforced by two others equally complete, neither of which is adequately met by Mr. Lowell.

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Chapters: Asteroid Discoverers, Discoverers of Trans-Neptunian Objects, Edwin Hubble, Clyde Tombaugh, Percival Lowell, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Giuseppe Piazzi, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Kazuro Watanabe, Takeshi Urata, Henri Debehogne, Seiji Ueda, Hiroshi Kaneda, Henry E. Holt, Freimut Börngen, Nikolai Chernykh, Edward L. G. Bowell, Paul G. Comba, Max Wolf, Robert H. Mcnaught, John Broughton, Lenka Kotková, Alan Stern, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, James Whitney Young, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Lyudmila Chernykh, Antonín Mrkos, Andrea Boattini, Frank B. Zoltowski, Lyudmila Zhuravlyova, Andrew Lowe, Tsutomu Seki, Lutz D. Schmadel, Michael E. Brown, Marc W. Buie, Yrjö Väisälä, Miloš Tichý, Robert Weber, George Van Biesbroeck, Johann Palisa, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Robert Burnham, Jr., Jane Luu, Allan Sandage, Lyudmila Karachkina, Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova, Fred Lawrence Whipple, Wolf Bickel, Otto Struve, James Edward Keeler, David H. Levy, Zdeňka Vávrová, Masanori Hirasawa, David J. Tholen, Tom Gehrels, Eleanor F. Helin, Auguste Charlois, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Walter Baade, Shohei Suzuki, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, Vincenzo Silvano Casulli, Krisztián Sárneczky, Paul Wild, Duncan Steel, Luboš Kohoutek, Jana Tichá, Zdeněk Moravec, Catalina Sky Survey, Cyril V. Jackson, Viktor Knorre, Carlos Torres, Grigory Neujmin, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Kiichiro Hurukawa, James V. Scotti, Heinrich Louis D'arrest, Alan C. Gilmore, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Graham E. Bell, Jean Mueller, Seth Barnes Nicholson, August Kopff, Richard Kowalski, Korado Korlević, James Craig Watson, Masaru Arai, Chad Trujillo, Norman Robert Pogson, John Russell Hind, Gary Hug, Norman G. Thomas, Hans-Emil Schuster, Sergey Belyavsky, Dennis Di Cicco, Hiroshi Mori, Giovanni de Sanctis, C. Michelle Olmstead, Phil Nicholson, Pamela M. Kilmartin, Schelte J. Bus, Richard Martin West, Sylvain Julien Victor Arend, Zhang Yuzhe, Walter R. Cooney, Jr., ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5428941 ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Flagstaff, Arizona, People From Sedona, Arizona, Max Ernst, Clyde Tombaugh, Percival Lowell, Stanley Jordan, Justin Frankel, Andy Devine, Henry F. Ashurst, Michelle Branch, Jane Russell, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, Diana Gabaldon, Ann Kirkpatrick, Lori Piestewa, E. S. Gosney, Billy Hatcher, Israel Regardie, Bruce Babbitt, Carl Leavitt Hubbs, Amos Marsh, Eric Mccain, Rob Simone, Shields and Yarnell, James Gregory, Deborah Walley, Morris Massey, Willard Reaves, Joe Beeler, Harvey Butchart, Trent Bray, R. Carlos Nakai, Jim Simmerman, Dale Shewalter, Lois Moran, Harold Masursky, John Verkamp, Ann Cummins, Bruce Zinky, Donnie Hickman, Charles J. Saunders. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 166. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. Tombaugh is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, but also discovered many asteroids, and called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects. Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle County, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh's plans for attending college were frustrated when a hailstorm ruined their crops. Starting in 1926, he built several telescopes with lenses and mirrors he ground himself. He sent drawings of Jupiter, Mars, and his telescopes to the Lowell Observatory. These resulted in a job offer. Tombaugh was employed at the Lowell Observatory from 1929 to 1945. Following his discovery of Pluto, Tombaugh earned bachelor's and master's degrees in astronomy from the University of Kansas in 1936 and 1938. During World War II he taught naval personnel navigation at Northern Arizona University. He worked at the White Sands Missile Range in the early 1950s, and taught astronomy at New Mexico State U...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6663 ... Read more

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Title: Is Mars Habitable? [microform] : a Critical Examination of Professor Percival Lowell's Book "mars and Its Canals," With an Alternative ExplanationPublisher: London : MacmillanPublication date: 1907Subjects: Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916Mars (Planet)Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Clyde Tombaugh, Percival Lowell, Roger Putnam, Venetia Burney, Solar Eclipses on Pluto, Plutoed. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 98. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as a planet, Pluto is now considered the largest member of a distinct population called the Kuiper belt. Like other members of the Kuiper belt, Pluto is composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small: approximately a fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon and a third its volume. It has an eccentric and highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU (4.47.4 billion km) from the Sun. This causes Pluto to periodically come closer to the Sun than Neptune. From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, Pluto was considered the Solar System's ninth planet. In the late 1970s, following the discovery of minor planet 2060 Chiron in the outer Solar System and the recognition of Pluto's very low mass, its status as a major planet began to be questioned. Later, in the early 21st century, many objects similar to Pluto were discovered in the outer Solar System, notably the scattered disc object Eris, which is 27% more massive than Pluto. On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined the term "planet" for the first time. This definition excluded Pluto as a planet, and added it as a member of the new category "dwarf planet" along with Eris and Ceres. After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of minor planets and given the number 134340. A number of scientists continue to hold that Pluto should be classified as a planet. Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, are sometimes treated together...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=44469 ... Read more

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"Mars by Percivel Lowell [1895]. Lowell was one of the first to interpret what he saw on Mars as evidence of intelligent life." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)

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Publisher's Preface; Atmosphere; The Water Problem; Canals; Oases

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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1905 (no publisher). VOLUME 3 ONLY!!! 10.5x12" light green* paperboard hardcover with black lettering. 293 pp + 60 pp supplement. B/W illustrations (plates). ... Read more