Mars and Its Canals

About this film

LibriVox recording of Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark nights. Sometimes they saw saw more than there really was to see, and a bit over 100 years ago Percival Lowell published books on what he was sure were canals on Mars, signs of intelligent civilization. (In case you too are skeptical, we also have at Librivox a criticism of Lowell's theories in a book published a year later (in 1907) by Alfred Russel Wallace.) - Summary by ToddHW For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (277MB)

Directors & creators

Percival Lowell

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; Mars; astronomy; canals; seeing what isn't true; hoaxes;

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