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controversy, for many astronomers of skill and experience had observed the planet in 1877 without detecting the network of 63 lines which Schiaparelli had revealed, and it was natural that they should feel some reluctance in accepting results so strange and novel. But little by little this controversy has passed. We now know that the canals vary much in their visibility, and
continents, islands, isthmuses, straits and the like, Schiaparelli had called the narrow lines he detected canali, that is to say channels, but without intending to convey the idea of artificial construction. Indeed, he himself was careful to point out that these designations were not intended to prejudge the nature of the spot, and were nothing but an artifice for helping the memory and for shortening descriptions. And he added, We speak in the same way of the lunar seas, although we well know that there are no true seas on the Moon. But canali was unhappily rendered in English as canals, instead of channels. Channel would
definition is an essential for their recognition. But the careful examination of drawings made in earlier oppositions, especially those made by Dawes and Green, afforded confirmation of not a few of Schiaparellis canals; even in 1877 a few of the easiest and most conspicuous had been delineated by other astronomers before any rumour of Schiaparellis work had come abroad, and as Mars came under observation again and again at successive oppositions, the number of those who were able to verify Schiaparellis discoveries increased. It has now long been known 64 that the great Italian astronomer was not the victim of a
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