Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 150
unfailingly makes life hard for its seers andprophets. For nine years the faithful Italianastronomer had the Martian canals quite tohimself. But in 1886 M. Perrotin at Nice suc-ceeded in seeing them also; and since then fied the markings, he and his assistant, M.Thollon, also detected the doubling… … DIAGRAMS SHOWING THE CANALS AND LAKES, OR OASES, ON MARS, AS SEEN THROUGH THE TELESCOPE AT DIFFERENT TIMES. they have been verified by the keenest observerseverywhere. It requires, however, an excellent telescopeand very steady air to detect these curiousmarkings, visible only when it is summer…
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