Giovanni Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer and science historian (1835-1910) · Italy · Scientists · Died at 75
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Something wrong?He drew lines on Mars and called them canali - channels - and the world heard "canals," sparking decades of fevered speculation about Martian engineers that he never quite intended.
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5412 - Palazzo di Brera, Milano - Lapide a Giovanni Schiaparelli - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 1-Oct-2011
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Giovanni Schiaparelli grave Milan 2015In their own words 1
, Mercury on its axis turns like the Moon: One side has lasting day, the other night; One side in everlasting fire doth swoon; While th'other hides forever from the light.
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Sibling: Celestino SchiaparelliAbout this person
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was born on 14 March 1835 in Italy and trained his telescopes on the red planet at a moment when astronomy was still a patchwork of competing systems. Before him, Martian features carried the names of living astronomers - a messy, shifting catalogue that made consistency impossible. Schiaparelli swept it away and built the nomenclature that survives today, a standardized map that let observers anywhere speak the same language. He also worked as a science historian, tracing how earlier generations had carved up the sky. He died on 4 July 1910, having given Mars a grammar it still uses.
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