From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 09:51:28 PDT
Hi Alex,
Can you get a copy of Lowell and Mars, by William Graves Hoyt, University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1976 (reprinted 1996):
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/books/bid691.htm
The images you seek are on pages 192-193. Regarding the canals, if there
are any depicted in those 20 images they display, then they must be pretty
small. I highly recommend this book.
Lowell's first book on Mars, published in 1895, is available online here:
http://www.wanderer.org/references/lowell/Mars/
It has plenty of his drawings of the Red Planet as he saw it in 1894.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Michael Bonnici
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:18 PM
To: setipublic; Project Orion
Subject: SETI public: A Question Concerning Lowell's Alleged 1907 Photographs of the Martian Canals
Hello Gang,
Currently I am involved in a series of public education
activities that will be organised in late August in connection to the
upcoming Mars Opposition. I will be giving the first of a series of
public lectures concerning Mars. The first lecture is entitled “Lowell
and the Martian Canal Saga”. This has always been a favourite topic of
mine. When I was teaching High School Physics and Astronomy in the
United States I repeated astronomer Edward Walter Maunder’s experiment
“School Boy” experiment and got some interesting results that the
Martian canals were an optical illusion.
In my research I keep coming across references that claim that the
Martian Canals were photographed.
One case in point being the following quote from a pseudo scientific web
site:
http://www.goddardmultimedia.fsnet.co.uk/atpai/canals.htm
“Lowell made a special expedition to Chile in 1907 and obtained the
first photographic evidence of the canals. His successor Dr. E.C.
Slipher had better success in later years with observations from South
Africa, when camera equipment had improved considerably. The Martian
canals are seen on plates VI and XLVII in the book, The Photographic
Story of Mars, by E.C. Slipher. The edition I
obtained was published by Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1962.
“
Mention of the alleged 1907 photographs is also made in Chapter 8
(http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/online.bks/mars/chap08.htm) of The
Planet Mars:
A History of Observation and Discovery by William Sheehan the University
of Arizona Press, Tucson Copyright © 1996
Does anyone have copies of these Alleged photographs that they can send
me via e-mail or the URL of any online web page that has these
photographs? Also is it true that some people claim to have captured the
canals on CCD images? Please provide references.
I beforehand thank you for your help,
Yours truly,
Alex Michael Bonnici
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