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Image 1 of Mars,- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 2 of Mars, -O i .r.^^ ^K^ }5 Oft )it^\%o^ kife^Wo^ -*Sfe\^^^o^ r o V ^1^ te^^ :Ly ^^r^^^ V .X^ .^,^#.1._^-_ A^ ^%^A v^^^- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 4 of Mars,- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 5 of Mars,- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 6 of Mars, ^onlis bp Pcrcibal lotDell. THE SOUL OF THE FAR EAST. i6mo, gilt top, $1.25. CHOSON: THE LAND OF THE MORNING CALM. A Sketch of Korea. Illustrated. 4to, gilt top, $5.00; half calf,…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 7 of Mars,- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 8 of Mars,- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 9 of Mars, MARS BY PERCIVAL LOWELL FELLOW AMERICAN ACADEMY*, MEMBER ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, ETC. BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY 1895- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 10 of Mars, Copyright, 1895, By PERCIVAL LOWELL. Ml rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton Si Ca- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 11 of Mars, 9^5 S^ TO PROFESSOR WILLIAM EDWARD STORY SOMETIME AT FLAGSTAFF HIMSELF THIS NEWS FROM A NEIGHBOR IS INSCRIBED- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 12 of Mars,- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 13 of Mars, PEEFACE This book is the result of a special study of the planet made during the last opposition, at an observatory put up for the purpose of get- ting as good air…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 14 of Mars, VI PREFACE Douglass were associated with me in the ob- servations herein described. Such as care to see the original data more technically and minutely treated will find them in the first…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 15 of Mars, CONTENTS CHAFTEB PAGE I. General Characteristics 1 1. As a Star 1 2. Orbit 8 3. Size and Shape 14^ II. Atmosphere 31 1. Evidence of it 31 2. Clouds 60 III.…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 16 of Mars,- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 17 of Mars, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE PAGK I. Mars, Sinus Titanum Colored Frontispiece. November, 1894. (P. L.) Orbits of Mars and the Earth .11 HuYGHENs Drawing of the Syrtis Major 21 November 28, 1659.…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 18 of Mars, viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XII. Mars, Longitude 270° on the Meridian 105 (P. L.) XIII. Mars, Longitude 300° on the Meridian 106 (P. i.) XIV. Mars, Longitude 330° on the Meridian 107…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 19 of Mars, MARS I GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS I. AS A STAK Once in about every fifteen years a startling visitant makes his appearance upon our mid- night skies, a great red star that rises at…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 20 of Mars, 2 MARS her swifter circling about the Sun, at that point in space where his orbit and hers make their closest approach. Although the apparent new-comer is neither new nor intrinsically great,…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 21 of Mars, AS A STAR 3 promise of response to that question which man instinctively makes as he gazes up at the stars What goes on upon all those distant globes Are they worlds,…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 22 of Mars, 4 MARS planets to obey a common force, the Sun just as Laplace showed it to be probable that we were all evolved from one and the same primal nebula so more…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 23 of Mars, AS A STAR 6 Jupiter, an orange, at a distance of a fifth of a mile Saturn, a small orange, at two fifths of a mile and Uranus and Neptune, good-sized plums,…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 24 of Mars, 6 MARS that extra-terrestrial life means extra-terrestrial human life. Such an inference recalls to my mind the exclamation of an innocent globe- trotter to a friend of mine in Japan once, a…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 25 of Mars, AS A STAR 7 theory is not whether there be a possibility of its being false, but whether there be a proba- bility of its being true. This, which is evident enough…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 26 of Mars, 8 MARS of a probability of five to one, the sum total from the four becomes not seventeen to one but three hundred to one in favor of its beinp^ true. It…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 27 of Mars, ORBIT 9 the general facts known about the planet, before taking up the observations which make the sub- ject matter of this book. The first of these general facts is the path…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 28 of Mars, 10 MARS Now, from observations of the apparent places of a planet, it is possible to determine the rela- tive path of the planet in space as compared with the path of…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 29 of Mars, ORBIT 11 lowed in his circuit of the Sun to be situated with regard to the Earth s as in the following diagram. Autumnal Equinox of MARS Southern Hemisphere Nov.1,1894 .^VvoA Oct.20.1804…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 30 of Mars, 12 MARS Aphelion, the point where the planet is the most remote from the Sun. In like manner the points marked Perihelion and Aphelion on the inner circle show the corresponding points…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 31 of Mars, ORBIT 13 liancy of a body how the body is situated, both with regard to the source of Hght and with regard to the observer. Now it so chances that at the…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 32 of Mars, 14 MARS when nearest the Sun his distance is 129,- 600,000 miles, when at his mean distance 141,500,000 miles, and when most remote 154,500,000 miles. The proportion of light and heat he…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 33 of Mars, SIZE AND SHAPE 15 characteristics is the fact that the distances between the masses which compose the system are very much greater than the dimensions of the masses themselves, of quite a…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 34 of Mars, 16 MAKS to be very difficult to determine with accuracy. Fortunately this is matter chiefly of theoretic regret, as we now know the actual sizes to within a degree of exactness practically…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 35 of Mars, SIZE AND SHAPE IT a planet has not. The reason is this the mass of a body is known from the pull it exerts, inasmuch as this pull depends, by the law…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 36 of Mars, 18 MAKS (with the exception of the Moon, and she, for- tunately, is an only child), the determination of the mass of the smaller by measurement of its motion about the larger,…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 37 of Mars, SIZE AND SHAPE 19 be 3093500 of that of the Sun, or of that of the Earth. Knowing his mass, we know his average den- sity, since to find it we have…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 38 of Mars, 20 MAHS of the Earth s orbit to Mars centre, and pass a plane similarly perpendicular to that, it will cut off the hemisphere we see at any moment from the one…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
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Image 39 of Mars, SIZE AND SHAPE 21 Huyghens drawing of the Syrtis Major, Nov. 28, 1659, 7 p. M. Keproduced from Flammarion s La Planete Mars. tant telescopic observation upon the planet. On November 28,…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895
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Image 40 of Mars, 22 MARS first learned that Mars had a day, and that its length was not far from the length of our own. The importance of these earliest pictures of Mars has not…- Contributor: Lowell, Percival
- Date: 1895