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Giovanni Schiaparelli
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Biography
He studied at the University of Turin, graduating in 1854, and later did research at Berlin Observatory, under Encke. In 1859â1860 he worked in Pulkovo Observatory near St Petersburg, and then worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory in Milan. He was also a senator of the Kingdom of Italy, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino and the Regio Istituto Lombardo, and is particularly known for his studies of Mars.Mars
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Schiaparelli's 1877 surface map of Mars
Among Schiaparelli's contributions are his telescopic observations of Mars. In his initial observations, he named the "seas" and "continents" of Mars. During the planet's "great opposition" of 1877, he observed a dense network of linear structures on the surface of Mars, which he called in Italian, meaning "channels", but the term was mistranslated into English as "canals".Washam, Erik, weblink" title="archive.today/20120912195828weblink">"Cosmic Errors: Martians Build Canals!", Smithsonian magazine, December 2010.While the term "canals" indicates an artificial construction, the term "channels" connotes that the observed features were natural configurations of the planetary surface. From the incorrect translation into the term "canals", various assumptions were made about life on Mars; as these assumptions were popularized, the "canals" of Mars became famous, giving rise to waves of hypotheses, speculation, and folklore about the possibility of Martians, intelligent life living on Mars. Among the most fervent supporters of the artificial-canal hypothesis was the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who spent much of his life trying to prove the existence of intelligent life on the red planet. After Lowell's death in 1916, 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 a corpus of works of classic science fiction.Later, with notable thanks to the observations of the Italian astronomer Vincenzo Cerulli, scientists came to the conclusion that the famous channels were actually mere optical illusions. The last popular speculations about canals were finally put to rest during the spaceflight era beginning in the 1960s, when visiting spacecraft such as Mariner 4 photographed the surface with much higher resolution than Earth-based telescopes, confirming that there are no structures resembling "canals".In his book Life on Mars, Schiaparelli wrote: "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."- Karte Mars Schiaparelli MKL1888.png -
Schiaparelli's 1877 surface map of Mars
Astronomy and history of science
File:Mercure carte schiaparelli.jpg|thumb|Schiaparelli's planisphere of Mercury ]]{| class="wikitable floatleft" style="font-size: 0.9em;"|+ Asteroids discovered: 169 Hesperia > | 69}} |
Honors and awards
File:Giovanni Schiaparelli grave Milan 2015.jpg|thumb|alt=A marble gravestone on the wall of a crypt|Schiaparelli's grave at the Monumental Cemetery of MilanMonumental Cemetery of MilanAwards
- Lalande Prize (1868)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1872)
- Bruce Medal (1902)
Named after him
- The main-belt asteroid 4062 Schiaparelli, named on 15 September 1989 ({{small|M.P.C. 15090}}).
- The lunar crater Schiaparelli
- The Martian crater Schiaparelli
- Schiaparelli Dorsum on MercuryWEB,weblink Schiaparelli Dorsum, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN),
- The 2016 ExoMars' Schiaparelli lander.
Relatives
His niece, Elsa Schiaparelli, became a noted designer or maker of haute couture.WEB,weblink ELSA SCHIAPARELLI, Vogue, 17 December 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140807053506weblink">weblink 7 August 2014, dead,Selected writings
- BOOK, Sulla determinazione della posizione geografica dei luoghi per mezzo di osservazioni astronomiche, Milano, 1872, it,weblink
- 1873 â Le stelle cadenti (The Falling Stars)
- BOOK, Osservazioni sulle stelle doppie, Hoepli, Milano, 1888, it,weblink
- BOOK, Sulla distribuzione apparente delle stelle visibili ad occhio nudo, Hoepli, Milano, 1889, 1889sdas.book.....S, it,weblink
- 1893 â La vita sul pianeta Marte (Life on Mars)
- 1925 â Scritti sulla storia della astronomia antica (Writings on the History of Classical Astronomy) in three volumes. Bologna. Reprint: Milano, Mimesis, 1997.
References
{{reflist|refs=WEB BOOK, Dictionary of Minor Planet Names â (69) Hesperia
, Schmadel, Lutz D.
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, 22
, 2007
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, 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_70, (69) Hesperia,
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, Schmadel, Lutz D.
, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
, 22
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, 978-3-540-00238-3
, 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_70, (69) Hesperia,
, Dictionary of Minor Planet Names â (4062) Schiaparelli
, Schmadel, Lutz D.
, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
, 347
, 2007
, 978-3-540-00238-3
, 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_4041, (4062) Schiaparelli,
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, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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, 2007
, 978-3-540-00238-3
, 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_4041, (4062) Schiaparelli,
, ESA Names ExoMars Lander 'Schiaparelli'
, Sean, Patterson
, 8 November 2013
,weblink
, Space Fellowship
, 8 November 2013,
JOURNAL
, Sean, Patterson
, 8 November 2013
,weblink
, Space Fellowship
, 8 November 2013,
, Defrancesco, S.
, April 1988
, Schiaparelli's determination of the rotation period of Mercury: a re-examination
, Journal of the British Astronomical Association
, 98
, 146â150
, 1988JBAA...98..146D
,
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, Schiaparelli's determination of the rotation period of Mercury: a re-examination
, Journal of the British Astronomical Association
, 98
, 146â150
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Further reading
- EB1911, Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio, 24, 322â323,
- "Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (1835â1910)", biography from www.daviddarling.info.
- Obituaries: G. V. Schiaparelli, J. G. Galle, J. B. N. Hennessey J. Coles, J. E. Gore, The Observatory, Vol. 33, p. 311â318, August 1910
External links
{{Commons category}}- {{ws|Source texts from Wikisource in s: and s:}}
- Le Mani su Marte: I diari di G.V. Schiaparelli. Observational diaries, manuscripts & drawings. Historical Archive of Brera Observatory. {{in lang|it}}
- {{Gutenberg author | id=2523| name=Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli}}
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