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Lowell Observatory / Kevin Schindler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schindler, Kevin, author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lowell Observatory--History--Pictorial works.
- Lowell Observatory.
- Astronomy--Research--Arizona--Flagstaff--History--Pictorial works.
- Astronomy.
- Astronomical observatories--Arizona--Flagstaff--History--Pictorial works.
- Astronomical observatories.
- Flagstaff (Ariz.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Flagstaff (Ariz.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2016]
- Summary:
- Atop a mesa one mile west of downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, sits Lowell Observatory, an astronomical research facility steeped in tradition.Percival Lowell, scion of a Boston Brahmin family, initially established his observatory in 1894 to study the possibility of intelligent life on Mars.
- Contents:
- The Lowells talk only to Cabots
- Abandon cities and forgo plains
- The best telescope money can buy
- The mystery of Mars
- Planet X and Pluto
- We choose to go to the Moon
- Sky watchers and their discoveries
- Instruments of the trade
- Other buildings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4396-5572-3
- OCLC:
- 945038960
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