Percival Lowell
Percival Lawrence Lowell (13. mart 1855. – 12. novembar 1916.) bio je američki biznismen, književnik, matematičar, i astronom koji je podgrijao razmišljanje o tome da postoje kanali na Marsu. On je osnovao Lowell opservatoriju u Flagstaffu, Arizona, i oblikovao početne napore koji su vodili otkriću Plutona 14 godina nakon njegove smrti.
Biografija
Percival Lowell je bio član bogate Bostonske, Massachusetts, porodice Lowell. Rođen je u Cambridgeu 13. marta 1855,[1] i brat je Abbott Lawrence Lowella i Amy Lowell.[1][2]
Kanali na Marsu
Publikacije
- Percival Lowell Collected Writings on Japan and Asia, including Letters to Amy Lowell and Lafcadio Hearn, 5 vols., Tokyo: Edition Synapse. ISBN 978-4-901481-48-9 www.aplink.co.jp/synapse/4-901481-48-7.htm
- Percival Lowell The Evolution of Worlds (1910) (Cijeli tekst na [./Datoteka:Wikisource-logo.svg
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Reference
Literatura
- Zahnel K. (2001). „Decline and Fall of the Martian Empire”. Nature 412 (6843): 209–213. DOI:10.1038/35084148. PMID 11449281.
- Crossley R. (2000). „Percival Lowell and the history of Mars”. Massachusetts Review 41 (3): 297–318.
- Strauss D. (1994). „Lowell, Percival, Pickering, W. H. and the founding of the Lowell Observatory”. Annals of Science 51 (1): 37–58. DOI:10.1080/00033799400200121.
- Trefil J. (1988). „Turn-of-the-Century American Astronomer Lowell, Percival”. Smithsonian 18 (10): 34–.
- Meyer W. B. (1984). „Life on Mars is almost Certain + Lowell,Percival on Exobiology”. American Heritage 35 (2): 38–43.
- Hetherington N. S. (1981). „Lowell, Percival – Professional Scientist or Interloper”. Journal of the History of Ideas 42 (1): 159–161. DOI:10.2307/2709423. JSTOR 2709423.
- Heffernan W. C. (1981). „Lowell, Percival and the Debate over Extraterrestrial Life”. Journal of the History of Ideas 42 (3): 527–530. DOI:10.2307/2709191. JSTOR 2709191.
- Webb G. E. (1980). „The Planet Mars and Science in Victorian America”. Journal of American Culture 3 (4): 573. DOI:10.1111/j.1542-734X.1980.0304_573.x.
- Hoyt W. G.; Wesley W. G. (1977). „Lowell and Mars”. American Journal of Physics 45 (3): 316–317. Bibcode 1977AmJPh..45..316H. DOI:10.1119/1.10630.
- Hofling C. K. (1964). „Percival Lowell and the Canals of Mars”. British Journal of Medical Psychology 37 (1): 33–42. DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1964.tb01304.x.
