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SCHIAPARELLI, GIOVANNI VIRGINIO (1835-191o) , Italian astronomer and senator of the kingdom of Italy, was born on the 14th of March
Milan . On the death of Francesco Carlini (b. 1783) in 1862, Schiaparelli succeeded to the directorship, a position which' he held until 1900. He died at Milan on the 4th of July 191o.Schiaparelli was primarily an observerhis first discovery was of the asteroid Hesperia in 1861but he had also considerable mathematical gifts, as is shown in his treatment of orbital motions, published in 1864, and in other papers. His great
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per le osservazioni dellestelle cadenti dei bolidi (1896) gained for him the Lalande prize of the Academy
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1877 by observations of the surface of Mars, whereon he detected, among other peculiar characters, certain streaky markings or canals, the nature and origin of which is still controversial (see MARS). Mercury and Venus
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