Martian canals

A couple more fun facts about the Schiaparelli family.

Her uncle, an astronomer, Giovanni Schiaparelli, discovered Canali or the Martian Canals.

Her cousin, Ernesto Schiaparelli, was an Egyptologist and ended up discovering the tomb of Nefertari.

As you can imagine, the Schiaparelli family was an interesting bunch, influencing a creative path and imagination in Elsa.

In the late 1800s, Percival Lowell, he's an American businessman, author, astronomer.

Percival Lowell championed that there were canals on Mars.

This is primarily because around the same time, Giovanni Schiaparelli, he's an Italian astronomer and science... historian he established this marian system of nomenclature but he announced that within his studies of trying to see mars he announced that there were canali meaning an intricate network of lines on mars it doesn't exactly translate to canals But Percival Lowell translated that to there are canals on Mars.

So as a result of that, he championed that there were not only canals on Mars, but there was also a ninth planet.

Lowell pledged to continue his work, and he built an observatory on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona, called the Lowell Observatory.

So, Lowell even went so far as to sketch drawings of what the canals appeared like.