Biography of Percival Lowell
by A. Lawrence Lowell
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Astronomy -- Observations
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51900
- Release Date
- April 30, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BIOGRAPHY OF PERCIVAL LOWELL
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — BIOGRAPHY OF PERCIVAL LOWELL
- 5.CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
- 6.CHAPTER II FIRST VISIT TO JAPAN
- 7.CHAPTER III KOREA
- 8.CHAPTER IV HIS FIRST BOOK, “CHOSÖN”
- 9.CHAPTER V THE COUP D’ETAT AND THE JAPANESE MARCH TO THE SEA
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE SOUL OF THE FAR EAST
- 11.CHAPTER VII SECOND VISIT TO JAPAN
- 12.CHAPTER VIII JAPAN AGAIN—THE SHINTO TRANCES
- 13.CHAPTER IX THE OBSERVATORY AT FLAGSTAFF — Annals of the Lowell Observatory INTRODUCTION
- 14.CHAPTER X MARS
- 15.CHAPTER XI THE PERMANENT OBSERVATORY—INTERLUDES AND TRAVELS
- 16.CHAPTER XII ILLNESS AND ECLIPSE
- 17.CHAPTER XIII MARS AND ITS CANALS
- 18.CHAPTER XIV THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- 19.CHAPTER XV LATER EVOLUTION OF THE PLANETS
- 20.CHAPTER XVI INTERLUDES
- 21.CHAPTER XVII THE EFFECT OF COMMENSURATE PERIODS The Asteroids and Saturn’s Rings
- 22.CHAPTER XVIIII THE ORIGIN OF THE PLANETS
- 23.CHAPTER XIX THE SEARCH FOR A TRANS-NEPTUNIAN PLANET
- 24.CHAPTER XX PLUTO FOUND [46]
- 25.APPENDIX I
- 26.APPENDIX II THE LOWELL OBSERVATORY by Professor Henry Norris Russell
- 27.FOOTNOTES
- 28.Transcriber’s Notes
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