It was shown that his and most other subsequent measurements of Mercury's period were incorrect
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Giovanni Schiaparelli
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today; before him, features of the planet bore the names of contemporary astronomers, similar to the lunar map of van Langren that preceded that of Hevelius.
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science · Italian astronomer and science historian (1835–1910) · astronomer · politician · discoverer of asteroids · mathematician · also Giovanni Schiaparelli, Schiaparelli
Born 14 March 1835 · Died 4 July 1910 · Q14281
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The International Astronomical Union set up an ad hoc committee under Audouin Dollfus, which settled on a list of 128 officially recognised albedo features
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1916· 1 entry
Astronomers developed a consensus against the canal hypothesis, but the popular concept of Martian canals excavated by intelligent Martians remained in the public mind for the first half of the 20th century and inspired
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1910· 1 entry
Died 1910-07-04.
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1902· 1 entry
Won Bruce Medal (1902).
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1896).
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1892· 1 entry
Camille Flammarion stated that Schiaparelli's was 'the greatest work which has been carried out with regard to Mars
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1890· 1 entry
Awarded Lalande Prize (1890).
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1877· 1 entry
“Rather than true channels in a form familiar to us, we must imagine depressions in the soil that are not very deep, extended in a straight direction for thousands of miles, over a width of 100, 200 kilometres and maybe more. I have already pointed out that, in the absence of rain on Mars, these channels are probably the main mechanism by which the water (and with it organic life) can spread on the dry surface of the planet.”
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1876· 1 entry
Won Cothenius Medal (1876).
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1872· 2 entries
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1872).
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Was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for his researches on the connexion between the orbits of comets and meteors"
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1867· 1 entry
Awarded Lalande Prize (1867).
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1862· 1 entry
Succeeded Francesco Carlini as director of the Observatory
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1842· 1 entry
“Originally in Latin; translated by Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907)”
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1835· 1 entry
Born 1835-03-14.
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