LOWELL, PERCIVAL

1855–1916, American astronomer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1876; brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell. He visited Korea and Japan, where he acted as counselor and foreign secretary to the Korean Special Mission to the United States and wrote several books about East Asia. Becoming interested in astronomy, he established (1894) the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., and devoted himself to making personal observations. It was his belief that Mars was inhabited and that the striations on the Martian surface were artificial waterways. He also contended that there was a planet beyond Neptune (confirmed in 1930 by the discovery of Pluto). From 1902 he was nonresident professor of astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his many writings on astronomy are Mars and Its Canals (1906) and The Genesis of Planets (1916).

See biography by A. L. Lowell (1935).

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Biography of Percival Lowell
Book by A. Lawrence Lowell; The Macmillan Company, 1935
Subjects: Astronomy--Observations, Lowell, Percival--1855-1916
...it is well to transcribe in full: "That Percival Lowell took an active interest in trees was probably...of this new field to make itself felt. " Percival Lowells great great grandfather, John Lowell, was one of the original members of the...
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James Russell Lowell and His Friends
Book by Edward Everett Hale; Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899
Subjects: Lowell, James Russell--1819-1891
...Bell and National Anti-Slavery Standard , 97 ; death of, 125 , 163 . Lowell, Mary. See Putnam, Mary Lowell. Lowell, Percival, 7 . Lowell, Rebecca, sister of J. R. L., 11 . Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, bro ther of J. R. L., 11...
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James Russell Lowell: A Biography - Vol. 2
Book by Horace Elisha Scudder; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1901
Subjects: Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Fiction, Lowell, James Russell--1819-1891--Biography
...likeness, 361 ; her influence on J. R. L., 369 . Lowell, MaryTraill Spence, afterward Mrs. S. R...J. R. L. at the home of, ii. 322 , 386 . Lowell, Percival, first of the Lowell family in America, i. 6 . Lowell, Rebecca...
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James Russell Lowell: a Biography - Vol. 1
Book by Horace Elisha Scudder; The Riverside Press, 1901
Subjects: Lowell, James Russell--1819-1891
...next year his youngest child, James Russell Lowell, was born in this house of many memories. The Rev. Charles Lowell was the seventh in descent from Percival Lowell, or Lowle, as the name sometimes was written...
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Florence Ayscough & Amy Lowell: Correspondence of a Friendship
Book by Harley Farnsworth MacNair; University of Chicago Press, 1945
Subjects: Authors, American--20th Century--Correspondence, Ayscough, Florence Wheelock--1878-1942--Correspondence, Lowell, Amy--1874-1925--Correspondence
AMY LOWELL AND THE FAR EAST 1 Florence Ayscough...her astounding gift of intuition Amy Lowell annihilated time and space and seemed...Japanese art and legend through her brother Percival Lowell, the astronomer, who traveled in Japan...
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Seizing the Moment: Collaboration and Cooperation in the Founding and Growth of the Museum of Northern Arizona, 1928-2008
Journal article by David R. Wilcox; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 52, 2010
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History--Growth, Arizona State Museum--Growth, Book publishing--Achievements and awards, Book publishing--Growth, Fishes--Growth, Flower, William Henry, Sir--Achievements and awards, Gillette Co.--Achievements and awards, Gillette Co.--Growth, Harvard University Press--Achievements and awards, Harvard University Press--Growth, Indiana University--Growth, Lowell Observatory--Growth, Museums--Achievements and awards, Personal care appliances industry--Achievements and awards, Personal care appliances industry--Growth, Publishing industry--Achievements and awards, Publishing industry--Growth, Smithsonian Institution Press, Society for American Archaeology--Growth, University of Arizona Press--Achievements and awards, University of Arizona Press--Growth
...Indiana University. He was hired at Lowell Observatory in 1903 as a photographic...1894, before being dispatched by Percival Lowell in 1894 to locate a site for an...then became a first assistant with Lowell Observatory, 1894-1901; after...
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H. G. Wells, Visionary Telescopes, and the "Matter of Mars"
Journal article by Robert Crossley; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 83, 2004
Subjects: Art and science, Human condition, Mars (Planet)--Portrayals, Technology and civilization, Technology and society, The War of the Worlds (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The War of the Worlds (Novel)--Influence, Wells, H.G.--Criticism and interpretation
...be-controversial astronomer Percival Lowell wrote a long, unpublished poem...and anthropology. Darwin, not Percival Lowell, is the key influence on the...science" see David Strauss, Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of...
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Planetfest Destiny
Journal article by Don Lago; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 47, 2008
Subjects: American history, Astronomy, Earth, Farming, Museums, Pluto, Roads & highways, Scale models
...especially Mars. Astronomer Percival Lowell had insisted that technological...Flagstaff, Arizona, not knowing that Lowell Observatory was looking for an...peanuts on a maybe hopeless task. Percival Lowell had made a fool of himself with...
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Remembering A. E. Douglass
Journal article by Bryant Bannister, Robert E. Jr. Hastings, Jeff Banister; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Archaeologists--Personal narratives, Archaeology--Discovery and exploration, Douglas, A.E.--Behavior, Tree rings--Discovery and exploration, Tree-rings--Discovery and exploration
...on. Prior to being hired by Percival Lowell in 1894, Douglass, having graduated...Arizona in 1894 under commission of Percival Lowell and traveled all over the state...Douglass became estranged from Percival Lowell. At the turn of this century...
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Western Attitudes toward the Korean Language: An Overview of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Mission Literature
Journal article by David J. Silva; Korean Studies, Vol. 26, 2002
...we consider how authors such as Percival Lowell draw direct connections between...at Arlington, 2002. (42.) Percival Lowell, Choson, the Land of the Morning...Korean Languages," 335. (46.) Lowell, Choson, the Land of the Morning...
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Mars: May 1895
Magazine article by Percival Lowell; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 299, January 2007
Subjects: Lowell, Percival--Observations, Mars (Planet)--Observations, Universe--Observations
Mars: May 1895. by Percival Lowell Following an Italian astronomers 1877 discovery of what appeared to be canals on the planet Mars, the astronomer Percival Lowell (brother of the poet Amy Lowell) began to investigate the...
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War of the Worldviews
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 105, December 1996
Subjects: Astronomers, Astronomy, History, Lowell, Percival (1855-1916), Mars, NASA, National Aeronautics & Space Administration
...dont make em more patrician than Percival Lowell, brother of Harvard president...sustained theorizing and experiment. Percival Lowell (1855-1916) spent his youthful...built his own coffin. At least Percival Lowell fell before a grand enemy, the...
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My Favorite Martian
Magazine article by Bill Kauffman; The American Enterprise, Vol. 9, January 1998
Subjects: Life on other planets--History, Lowell, Percival--Research, Mars (Planet)--History
...from the blue-blood astronomer Percival Lowell, who a century ago fired imaginations...if thirsty, engineers. And Lowell, like NASA, put his Martians to political use. Percival Lowell was born in 1855 to the Boston...
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Flagstaff, Arizona Defending Our Pluto
Magazine article by Peter Fish; Sunset, Vol. 218, February 2007
Subjects: Astronomy, Awards & honors, Flagstaff Arizona, Lowell Observatory, Lowell, Percival (1855-1916), Pluto, Space telescopes
...covered hill above Flagstaff. Lowell is here because in the 1890s a rich, eccentric Bostonian named Percival Lowell became fascinated by the planets...On these nights you see why Percival Lowell chose this site: So many stars...
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Visit to a Small Planet
Magazine article by Bill Kauffman; American Conservative, Vol. 9, April 2010
Subjects: Astronomy, Flagstaff Arizona, Lowell Observatory, Lowell, Percival (1855-1916), Pluto, Putnam, William Lowell, Science history, Tombaugh, Clyde
...Flagstaff is also home to the Lowell Observatory, founded...by the Boston Brahmin Percival Lowell, who was convinced that...Planet X" hypothesized by Percival LoweU. Vesto decided...Hill (1994), WiUiam Lowell Putnam writes that SUpher...
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5 Fun Things for Families in Flagstaff
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 28, 2011
...central Flagstaff; http://www.lowell.edu/ or (928) 774-3358...4, students/seniors $9. Lowell has one of the largest telescopes...housed inside a rotating dome. Percival Lowell founded the observatory in 1894...
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Extraterrestrials, Mars Meteorite
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 30, 2006
Subjects: Book publishing, Oxford University Press
...Giovanni Schiaparelli and the American Percival Lowell. Both men perceived a system of...commit himself fully to this idea, Lowell was a true believer. A scion of...observations, were illusory, but Lowell never abandoned his beliefs. The...
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WATCH THIS SPACE! It's Not Just Men Who Are from Mars (Clockwise from Top): The Woman Spotted on the Planet Earlier This Week, the Cydonia 'Dolphin' and a Face Seen in 1976
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 24, 2008
...acentury. BACK in the 1890s, the American astronomer Percival Lowell spent night afterchilly night in his observatory in...see the planet for centuries. I saw no canals. But Lowell was not lying he was simply seeing what was not there...
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WATCH THIS SPACE! ; Its Not Just Men Who Are from Mars (Clockwise from Top): The Woman Spotted on the Planet Earlier This Week, the Cydonia Dolphin and a Face Seen in 1976
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 25, 2008
...century. BACK in the 1890s, the American astronomer Percival Lowell spent night afterchilly night in his observatory in...see the planet f or centuries. I saw no canals. But Lowell was not lying he was simply seeing what was not there...
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103 in a Row for Rangers Fan Jane
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), January 26, 1997
...diphtheria, begin immunising against the disease. RANGERS FC had reached the ripe old age of 21. AMERICAN astrologer Percival Lowell claimed Mars was populated by intelligent beings who had built an intricate system of waterways.
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Lowell, Percival
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOWELL, PERCIVAL 1855 1916, American astronomer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1876; brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell. He visited Korea and Japan, where he acted as counselor and foreign...
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Lowell, Abbott Lawrence
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOWELL, ABBOTT LAWRENCE 1856 1943, American...1877; LL.B., 1880); brother of Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell. He practiced law in...of Principle (1932), Biography of Percival Lowell (1935), and What a University President...
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Lowell Observatory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOWELL OBSERVATORY astronomical observatory located...Flagstaff, Ariz.; it was founded in 1894 by Percival Lowell , the American astronomer who popularized...the 13-in. (33-cm) A. Lawrence Lowell photographic camera used by Clyde Tombaugh...
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Lowell, Amy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOWELL, AMY 1874 1925, American poet, biographer, and critic, b. Brookline, Mass., privately educated; sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell. In 1912 she published A Dome of Many-Colored Glass, a volume...
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Pluto , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...planet beyond the orbit of Neptune was first proposed by Percival Lowell on the basis of observed perturbations of the orbits...1929, the search for a ninth planet was resumed at Lowell Observatory , and on Feb. 18, 1930, using photographic...
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