Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1855 - 1916)
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Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell (1855 - 1916) is a arts podcast hosted by LibriVox. It has 34 episodes, with the latest published January 1970.
In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark nights. Sometimes they saw saw more than there really was to see, and a bit over 100 years ago Percival Lowell published books on what he was sure were canals on Mars, signs of intelligent civilization. (In case you too are skeptical, we also have at Librivox a criticism of Lowell's theories in a book published a year later (in 1907) by Alfred Russel Wallace.) - Summary by ToddHW
arts ·en ·34 episodes
Summary
The Canals
Their System
Gemination of the Canals
The Double Canals, Parts 1 and 2
The Double Canals, Parts 3 and 4
Canals in the Dark Regions
Oases
Carets on the Borders of the Great Diaphragm
The Canals Photographed
Canals: Kinematic
Canal Development Individually Instanced
Hibernation of the Canals
Arctic Canals and Polar Rifts
Oases: Kinematic
Constitution of the Canals and Oases
Life
Evidence
The Husbanding of Water
Conclusion
Preface
On Exploration
A Departure-point
A Bird’s-eye View of Past Martian Discovery
The Polar Caps
Behavior of the Polar Caps
Martian Polar Expeditions
White Spots
Climate and Weather
Mountains and Cloud
The Blue-green Areas
Vegetation
Terraqueousness and Terrestriality
The Reddish-ochre Tracts
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