Description: Mars As The Abode Of Life. First Edition. Author: Lowell, Percival 8vo.(6" x 8.75") 1908. Lowell, Percival. New York: The Macmillan Company. Full red publisher's cloth with gilt title/author within gilt frame to upper board. Spine same with gilt publisher to foot. Top edge gilt. Head of spine chipped, with loss, foot of spine with small closed tears. Covers slightly soiled. Library stamp to front pastedown. First Edition. 8 full page plates, dozens of in text illustrations. From Wiki: Percival Lowell (/ˈloʊəl/; March 13, 1855 - November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death. For some fifteen years (1893 to about 1908) Lowell studied Mars extensively, making intricate drawings of the surface markings as he perceived them. Lowell published his views in three books: Mars (1895), Mars and Its Canals (1906), and Mars As the Abode of Life (1908). With these writings, Lowell more than anyone else popularized the long-held belief that these markings showed that Mars sustained intelligent life forms. His works include a detailed description of what he termed the "non-natural features" of the planet's surface, including especially a full account of the "canals," single and double; the "oases," as he termed the dark spots at their intersections; and the varying visibility of both, depending partly on the Martian seasons. He theorized that an advanced but desperate culture had built the canals to tap Mars' polar ice caps, the last source of water on an inexorably drying planet. Free shipping via USPS for United State purchaser within the continental U.S., International shipping determined using USPS Priority Express, DHL, FedEx, or Parcel Monkey, Sonny Ideker Bookseller is located within City Antiques in Historic Roswell, Georgia at 700 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA. 30076. We would love to have you visit, or email us at sidekerbookseller at gmail.com for specific wants or needs, thanks! Antique Books, Old Leather Book, Old Vellum Book, Decorative Binding, Antiquarian Book, Vintage decorative, Ancient Leather, Rare Books, Space Travel, Mars as Earth, Elon Musk, Space Voyage, colonization, Science Full red cloth, gilt decorative cover, Illustrations Plates, Decorative Books, Decorative Leather, Beautiful Decorative Book
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