Giovanni Schiaparelli

✶March 14, 1835

†July 4, 1910

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About their life

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today; before him, features of the planet bore the names of contemporary astronomers, similar to the lunar map of van Langren that preceded that of Hevelius.

Italian astronomer and science historian (1835-1910)

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