Article ID: CBB031685528

A complicated relationship: An introduction to the correspondence between Percival Lowell and Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (2021)

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From 1896 until Schiaparelli’s death in 1910, Percival Lowell and Giovanni Schiaparelli exchanged letters, telegrams, packages, and postcards apprising them of each other’s work and commenting on the other’s latest theories. Lowell, who greatly admired Schiaparelli’s astronomical career, wrote in search of approval for his oft-criticized theories about the perceived presence of canals and vegetation on Mars. Schiaparelli, who courted many theories about Mars but never truly invested himself entirely in one, gently guided Lowell to see other possibilities or recognize faults in his work, criticism that Lowell took with difficulty from others but accepted from Schiaparelli. The correspondence, translated from the original French here and made newly available to the public, shows a complex but respectful, warm, and gentlemanly relationship between two giants of Martian astronomy.

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Authors & Contributors
Cunningham, Clifford J.
Stefania De Lucia
Cristina Santinelli
Harriet J. Mercer
Riccardo Galiani
Francesco Napolitano
Concepts
Correspondence and corresponding
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Communication of scientific ideas
Mars
Astronomy
Translations
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Portugal
France
Tasmania (Australia)
Prussia (Germany)
Americas
United States
Institutions
Vienna Circle
Madras Observatory
Lowell Observatory
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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