1900

Louise Leonard’s Mars Drawings (1903-05)

Louise Leonard’s Mars Drawings (1903-05)

These are probably the first drawings of Mars by a woman astronomer. They were drawn by Wrexie Louise Leonard, the assistant of Percival Lowell, at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. References: W. Louise Leonard: Drawings of Mars. Popular Astronomy, 1907 (147), XV/7. 387-390. Jan Millsapps: Wrexie Louise Leonard: Take a Letter, Take a Look. […]
Antoniadi’s Polar Maps of Mars 1900-1901

Antoniadi’s Polar Maps of Mars 1900-1901

Antoniadi EM, Attkins EAL, Bolton S, Buchanan WE, Corder H, Craig SR, Hall WJ, Kibbler WA, Killip R? Molesworth PB, Phillips TER, Price WS, Smith HF, Townshend HJ 1903 Mars – Report of the Section, 1900-1901. Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, Volume 11, p7513 (167-, 86-) LONDON Chart on the North Polar regions of […]
Mottoni’s albedo synthesis maps of Mars

Mottoni’s albedo synthesis maps of Mars

De Mottoni Y Palacios, G. (1975). The appearance of Mars from 1907 to 1971: Graphic synthesis of photographs from the I.A.U. center at Meudon. Icarus, 25(2), 296–332   Note: we display these maps north-up.
Vegetation map of Mars and Earth (sprouting times on Mars)

Vegetation map of Mars and Earth (sprouting times on Mars)

Lowell, P 1908 Mars as the abode of life. Macmillan, New York
Maunder’s test map of Mars (1903)

Maunder’s test map of Mars (1903)

Drawn by: Edward Walter Maunder Evans, J. E. & Maunder, E. W.: Experiments as to the actuality of the “Canals” observed on Mars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 63, p.488-499. June 1903 This experiment was to test the real existence of canals on Mars. “Drawing 6*25 inches based upon one by Professor Schiaparelli made […]
Lukács’s Copy of Lowell’s Map of the Polar cap of Mars (1904)

Lukács’s Copy of Lowell’s Map of the Polar cap of Mars (1904)

A Mars és a Föld összehasonlító topográfiája. Comparative topography of Mars and Earth. Lukács Károly 1904. Manuscript. Pencil and ink A copy of another map, with signature “R de M” (?) Lukács Károly: A sarki hósüvegek változásai a Marson és a Földön. Földrajzi Közlemények 1904. február, 11. füzet. 41-72   Original: Map of the South Pole […]
Lukács’ map of Mars (1904)

Lukács’ map of Mars (1904)

A Mars és a Föld összehasonlító topográfiája (Comparative topography of Mars and Earth, in Hungarian). Drawn by: Lukács Károly 1904 Pencil and black ink. Ca. 20×25 cm Unpubl. manuscript. Based on Flammarion and Antoniadi’s map but with somewhat more details and few more names. References Lukács Károly: A sarki hósüvegek változásai a Marson és a […]
Flammarion and Antoniadi’s Map of Mars (1900-1910)

Flammarion and Antoniadi’s Map of Mars (1900-1910)

1900. Courtesy of Ton Lindemann. This map is largely based on the British Astronomical Association map 1896 but includes more polar latitudes. Same map as above from a Russian encyclopedia. Новый энциклопедический словарь.  Брокгауза и Ефрона / [под общ. ред. К. К. Арсеньева]. Petrograd. n.d. СПб, 191(?). (c. 1915)      Antoniadi’s map 1900  reprojected onto the […]
Lowell’s Globe of Mars (1905)

Lowell’s Globe of Mars (1905)

Photo: A reconstruction of the Lowell globe, made by Keith Boulger. This globe is on display at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ. More images of this globe.  See also a video of another reconstruction of the Lowell globe.
Lowell’s map of Mercury (1902)

Lowell’s map of Mercury (1902)

Source: P. Lowell:  New observations of the planet Mercury.  Cambridge, J. Wilson and son, 1902. In Memoirs of the American academy of arts and sciences, n.8., v.12, no.4 The book also includes tens of drawings of Mercury. According to the author, the planet is “covered with long narrow markings best explained as the result of […]
Ingeborg Brun’s Globe of Mars (1909)

Ingeborg Brun’s Globe of Mars (1909)

Hand painted by the Danish astronomer Emmy Ingeborg Brun in 1905-1909. The globe is based on the canal maps of Percival Lowell. Note nice Art Nouveau style lettering. “Brun is known to have presented Flammarion with one of her globes. Fewer than ten of Brun’s Mars globes appear to have been recorded.” (Source) Original globe […]
Lowell’s maps of Mars (1894-1905)

Lowell’s maps of Mars (1894-1905)

1894 Source: Lowell, P. 1895; Mars; Flagstaff Image courtesy Ton Lindemann. Nomenclature ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY REGIONS No. Name 100 Aonius Sinus 7 Argyre 168 Atlantis 15 Aurorae Sinus 287 Ausonia 4 Dencalionis Regio 268 Edom Promontorium 194 Elysium 1 Fastigium Aryn 229 Hadriaticum Mare 240 Hammonis Cornu 275 Hellas 211 Hesperia 205 Isidis Regio 236 Japygia […]