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Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin

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Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin - Strauss, David
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Elder brother of Harvard President Lawrence and poet Amy, Percival Lowell is best known as the astronomer who claimed intelligent beings had built canals on Mars. But the Lowell who emerges here was a polymath: not just a self-taught astronomer, but a shrewd investor, skilled photographer, inspired public speaker, and adventure-travel writer.

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Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin 2001, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674002913

Hardcover