where was he born?
Boston, Massachusetts
Percival Lowell
cival Lowell was born on March 13, 1855, in Boston, Massachusetts
in 1930 what name was not on the short-list of potential names for the planet pluto "Zeus" who discovered it initially? Percival Lowell when was it? March 19 and April 7, 1915 how is it classified? Dwarf planet or Minor Planet what is iau? The International Astronomical Union how does it categorize the aforesaid planet? As a dwarf planet when was this union formed? 28 July 1919 what was its objective? Its main objective is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects through international cooperation. what can you tell me about the discoverer? He was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. what more can you tell me about this speculation? He theorized that an advanced but desperate culture had built the canals to tap Mars' polar ice caps, the last source of water on an inexorably drying planet.
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Percival Lowell [SEP] Early life and work
Percival Lowell was born on March 13, 1855, in Boston, Massachusetts, the first son of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell. A member of the Brahmin Lowell family, his siblings included the poet Amy Lowell, the educator and legal scholar Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and Elizabeth Lowell Putnam, an early activist for prenatal care. They were the great-grandchildren of John Lowell and, on their mother's side, the grandchildren of Abbott Lawrence. Percival graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in 1872 and Harvard University in 1876 with distinction in mathematics. At his college graduation, he gave a speech, considered very advanced for its time, on the nebular hypothesis.