Percival Lowell the culture and science of a Boston Brahmin
"This biography casts new light on the life and careers of Percival Lowell. Scion of a wealthy Boston family, elder brother of Harvard President Lawrence and poet Amy, Percival Lowell is best remembered as the astronomer who claimed that intelligent beings had built a network of canals on Mars....
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| adam_text | PERCIVAL LOWELL THE CULTURE AND SCIENCE OF A BOSTON BRAHMIN DAVID
STRAUSS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON,
ENGLAND * 2001 CONTENTS * * * ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODUCTION: PERCIVAL
LOWELL AND THE BOSTON BRAHMINS 1 PART I: THE PRIVATE LOWELL 9 1 THE
MAKING OF AN IMPROPER BOSTONIAN 13 2 LOWELL AND HIS PEERS 24 3
PREPARATION OF A POLYMATH 45 4 NEW CAREERS 69 PART II: LOWELL AS
SPENCERIAN 97 5 COSMIC PHILOSOPHER 101 6 IMAGE-MAKER 114 7 PSYCHICAL
RESEARCHER 133 8 COSMOGONIST 151 PART III: LOWELL AS ASTRONOMER 167 9
FROM ASTRONOMICAL PICNIC TO OBSERVATORY 173 10 LOWELL S CAMPAIGN FOR
THE CANALS OF MARS 197 11 THE ESTABLISHMENT RESPONDS J 220 VIII CONTENTS
12 THE SEARCH FOR RECOGNITION 241 CONCLUSION: A PROPER BOSTONIAN ON MARS
HILL 259 NOTES 271 INDEX 323 ILLUSTRATIONS LOWELL S FAVORITE
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE IN THE VALLEY OF THE CLOTHES, NORTH
OF SEOUL, 1884 81 THE GEISHA FRAGRANT IRIS, NORTHEAST OF SEOUL, 1884
126 LOWELL AT THE 24-INCH CLARK REFRACTOR ON MARS HILL 188 E. S. MORSE
AND LOWELL IN LOWELL S STUDY, MARS HILL, 1905 206
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