PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
CHAPTER II FIRST VISIT TO JAPAN
CHAPTER III KOREA
CHAPTER IV HIS FIRST BOOK, "CHOSON"
CHAPTER V THE COUP D'ETAT AND THE JAPANESE MARCH TO THE SEA
CHAPTER VI THE SOUL OF THE FAR EAST
CHAPTER VII SECOND VISIT TO JAPAN
CHAPTER VIII JAPAN AGAIN THE SHINTO TRANCES
CHAPTER IX THE OBSERVATORY AT FLAGSTAFF
CHAPTER X MARS
CHAPTER XI THE PERMANENT OBSERVATORY INTERLUDES AND TRAVELS
CHAPTER XII ILLNESS AND ECLIPSE
CHAPTER XIII MARS AND ITS CANALS
CHAPTER XIV THE SOLAR SYSTEM
CHAPTER XV LATER EVOLUTION OF THE PLANETS
CHAPTER XVI INTERLUDES
CHAPTER XVII THE EFFECT OF COMMENSURATE PERIODS The Asteroids and Saturn's Rings
CHAPTER XVIIII THE ORIGIN OF THE PLANETS
CHAPTER XIX THE SEARCH FOR A TRANS-NEPTUNIAN PLANET
CHAPTER XX PLUTO FOUND [46]
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II THE LOWELL OBSERVATORY by Professor Henry Norris Russell
FOOTNOTES
Transcriber's Notes
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PERCIVAL LOWELL AGE 61
From a silver point portrait begun before his death and finished afterwards by Eccolo Cartollo
BIOGRAPHY OF
PERCIVAL LOWELL
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1935
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