Giovanni Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer and science historian (1835-1910)
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Italian astronomer who mapped Mars so thoroughly that his nomenclature system stuck around for centuries. Named those planetary features after classical mythology instead of just slapping contemporary astronomers' names all over it.
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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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