Author:Percival Lowell

Percival Lowell
(1855–1916)

Percival Lowell

Works by Lowell

Astronomy

• "Mars", 4 parts (May–Aug 1895)

  "Mars. I. Atmosphere" in The Atlantic Monthly, 75 (451) (May, 1895), pp. 594–603 (external scan)

  "Mars. II. The Water Problem" in The Atlantic Monthly, 75 (452) (June, 1895), pp. 749–758 (external scan)

  "Mars. III. Canals" in The Atlantic Monthly, 76 (453) (July, 1895), pp. 106–119 (external scan)

  "Mars. IV. Oases" in The Atlantic Monthly, 76 (454) (August, 1895), pp. 223–235 (external scan)

• Mars (1895; 2nd ed., 1896)
• New observations of the planet Mercury (1897) OCLC:13307357^{all editions}(external scan)
• Maps of the planet (1898) OCLC:33326430^{all editions}
• Physical and micrometric observations of Mars and the development and significance of its phenomena, with William H. Pickering OCLC:33326417^{all editions}
• Observations of Mars, 1896 and 1897 (1900) OCLC:33326384^{all editions}
• Observations of the planet Jupiter and its satellites, 1894 and 1895 (1900), OCLC:33326369^{all editions}
• Mars on glacial epochs (1901) OCLC:46727332^{all editions}
• The Solar System (1903) OCLC:575185^{all editions} (Commons category)
• The Cartouches of Mars (1903) OCLC:20546491^{all editions}
• Observations of the planet Mars during the oppositions of 1894- made at Flagstaff, Arizona (1905) OCLC:56489059^{all editions}
• First photographs of the canals of Mars, Proceedings of the Royal Society: Mathematical and physical, ser. A, vol. 77, no. A515 (8 Feb. 1906)
• Mars and its Canals (1906) OCLC:1442219^{all editions} (Commons category) (external scan)

Is Mars habitable?, a 1907 rebuttal by Alfred Russel Wallace

• New photographs of Mars, taken by the astronomical expedition to the Andes and now first published (1907) OCLC:24632638^{all editions}
• Mars as the Abode of Life, 1908 OCLC:1526909^{all editions} (Commons category) (external scan)
• The Evolution of Worlds, 1909 (transcription project) (Commons category)
• The plateau of the San Francisco peaks in its effect on tree-life (1909) OCLC:71118217^{all editions}
• Our friends, the enemy. A discussion bearing on scientific ethics, with concrete illustrations (1909) OCLC:41580173^{all editions}
• Die Selbstbildnisse der Planeten Vortr., geh. im Verein von Freunden der "Berlin Treptow-Sternwarte"; Aus d. engl. Ms. ins Dtsch. übertr. (1910) OCLC:72608032^{all editions}
• Die Seele des fernen Ostens. (1911) OCLC:13111350^{all editions}
• Spectroscopic proof of the repulsion by the sun of gaseous molecules in the tail of Halley's comet (1911) OCLC:49460405^{all editions}
• Mars i zhiznʹ na nem (Russian, 1912) OCLC:63172241^{all editions}
• The Origin of the Planets (1913) OCLC:13307374^{all editions}
• Memoir on Saturn's Rings (1915?) OCLC:22530243^{all editions}

Travel writing and Japan

• Korean photographs : the first photographs of their kind ever taken in Korea (1883-1884) OCLC:23013967^{all editions}
• Chosön; the land of the morning calm : a sketch of Korea (1885) OCLC:5525403^{all editions}
• A comparison of the Japanese and Burmese languages, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Vol. 19, pt. 3.
• Esoteric Shinto, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Vol. 21, p. 106-135, 152-197, 241-270; vol. 22, pt. 1, p. [1]-26. OCLC:63836336^{all editions}
• The Soul of the Far East Project Gutenberg
• Occult Japan (1894) (Commons category)
• Noto: An Unexplained Corner of Japan (1891) Project Gutenberg(external scan)
• The Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine Amazon link

• Collected Writings on Japan and Asia, including Letters to Amy Lowell and Lafcadio Hearn, 5 vols., Tokyo: Edition Synapse. ISBN 978-4-901481-48-9 [1]

Early poetry

• Lines on Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1895) OCLC:6897854^{all editions}
• Sakura no Saku, poem presented in 1889 read at Harvard Commencement for Phi Beta Kappa
• Lines on his Mathematics Instructor, 1889
• Ontake, blank verse published in the 1893 Liber Scriptorum of the Author's Club of New York

Other

• Augustus Lowell, 1901 address to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Letter to his sister regarding her concerns about his biography of their father, August 30, 1901

• Lowell Oration to the Executive Committee of the Fourth of July Celebration, 1901. Flagstaff, Ariz. OCLC:3085258^{all editions}
• Immigration versus the United States : an address delivered at Phoenix, Arizona, February 17, 1916, OCLC:68705088^{all editions}

Works about Lowell

• Henry Morse Stephens collection; pamphlets on U.S. history OCLC:26760846^{all editions}
• "Lowell, Percival," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• Martians Build Two Immense Canals in Two Years, as it appeared in the 1911 New York Times based off Lowell's research
• "Lowell, Abbott Lawrence," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Lowell, Percival," in The Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: (1918)
• "Lowell, Percival," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• Percival Lowell: An Afterglow, by Louise Leonard (1921)
• "Lowell, Abbott Lawrence," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)