Schiaparelli Map, Canali of Mars, 1898

Color enhanced Schiaparellis map of the canali of Mars. Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian. In 1888, Schiaparelli announced the discovery of a network of narrow lines on Mars, which he described as canali, an Italian word that means channels. This map was drawn between 1882 and 1898, when it was published

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