Others are from the mistaken science of Percival Lowell, the American astronomer who believed intelligent beings lived on Mars.

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Percival Lowell did not know that his eyes played a part in the markings he saw on Mars.

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Three years after Mister Lowell's book was published, H.G Wells published his famous book "War of the Worlds."

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Yet,the institution Mister Lowell established in Flagstaff,Arizona, has made many discoveries in addition to that of Pluto.

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Astronomers at Lowell and many other observatories continue to search for life beyond our planet.

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Evidence that the universe is expanding was first discovered at Lowell Observatory by V.M.Slipher.

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Mister Lowell's theories were based on what were serious scientific studies of that time.

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Then in nineteen twenty-five, Guy Lowell,a relative of Percival, gained control of the observatory.

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He found notes that described markings on Mars that Mister Schiaparelli called "canali" Mister Lowell came to believe that intelligent life created the markings on Mars.

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Today,we tell about Percival Lowell whose work led to the discovery of Pluto.

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Mister Lowell himself searched for Planet X for two years starting in nineteen-oh-five.

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The Lowell family first came to the colony of Massachussetts in sixteen thirty-nine.

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Percival Lowell attended American and European private schools as a young man.

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Percival Lowell also studied the effect of gravity on the planet Neptune.

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In eighteen eighty-three, Mister Lowell traveled to Korea as a diplomat.

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Mister Lowell published his first book about Mars in eighteen ninety-five.

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Percival Lowell did not have the chance to discover Planet X.

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Lowell Observatory now has four telescopes and is continuing to expand.

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Lowell imagined them as the hopeful engineers of great works.

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Mister Lowell's theories about Mars also influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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The date was the seventy-fifth anniversary of Mister Lowell's birth.

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This is very similar to Mister Lowell's description of Mars.

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Percival's father,Augustus Lowell, worked in the family cloth business.

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Mister Lowell remained in East Asia for ten years.

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One of Percival Lowell's ancestors, John Cabot Lowell,manufactured cloth.

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Their efforts continue Percival Lowell's tradition of scientific investigation.

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Mister Lowell's book, "Mars and Its Canals."

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