Mars and Its Canals
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120
1906
English
- 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
- 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
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
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