Percival Lowell eBooks
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Mars: Sinus Titanum; November, 1894. E-book. Formato PDF Percival Lowell - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
This book is the result of a special study of the planet made during the last opposition, at an observatory put up for the purpose of getting as good air as practicable, at Flagstaff, Arizona. A steady atmosphere is essential to the study of planetary detail: size of instrument being a very secondary matter. A large instrument in poor air will not begin to show what a smaller one in good air will. When this is recognized; as it eventually will be, it will become the fashion to put up observatories where they may see rather than he seen.Next to atmosphere comes systematic study.
Mars and Its Canals. E-book. Formato PDF Percival Lowell - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Mars and Its Canals. E-book. Formato PDF - Forgotten Books
Occult Japan: Or the Way of the Gods, an Esoteric Study of Japanese Personality and Possession. E-book. Formato PDF Percival Lowell - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The manifestations of which this book treats were witnessed by the writer in 1891 and 1893. Since then the miracles, he learns, have become one of the sights that visitors are taken to see, and on the fifteenth of April and of September the grounds of his friend the high priest at Kanda show many a tourist from the other side of the world amid the devout crowd about the sacred bed of coals.