Schiaparelli, G V. [ Giovanni Virginio ]

Osservazioni Astronomiche e Fisiche sulla Topografia e Costituzione del Pianeta Marte fatte nella Specola Reale in Milano coll'equatoriale di Merz-Repsold durante l'opposizione del 1888 [ memoria 2 ]

Roma: Tipografia Della R. Accademia dei Lincei 1910. [101]-156 pages plus five plates in rear. 9 x 12 inches. An uncut, unopened example in the original yellow printed wrappers. Complete, but with the textblock separated from the plate "block" in rear causing the spine paper to separate. Memorie Della R. Accademia Dei Lincei -- Classe Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e. Naturali -- Anno CCCVII -- Serie Quinta Volume VIII, Fascicolo II. Fair. Wraps. [28086]


"Schiaparelli's observations of Mars ended with the 1890 opposition. This cycle included seven oppositions that present all conceivable varieties of inclinations of the axis, of the apparent diameter, and of geocentric declination, and it occurred at points along the zodiac almost equidistant from each other...The last areographic map, which Schiaparelli drew at the conclusion of his observations, is the most geometric of all and depicts most of the canals as split. E. Antoniadi, another well-known observer of Mars, using a telescope with an eighty-three-centimeter aperture at the Meudon (Paris) observatory, noted in 1930 that Schiaparelli, with instruments of equal power, had surpassed everyone with his numerous observations." (DSB, Vol 11/12, p161).

Title loosely translated into English: "Astronomical and Physical Observations on the Topography and Constitution of the Planet Mars made in the Specola Reale in Milan with the Merz-Repsold equatorial during the opposition of 1888"

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