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Percival Lowell

1855 to 1916 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Percival Lowell across 3 places, from 1855 to 1893. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Percival Lowell (March 13, 1855 – November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, and furthered theories of a ninth planet within the Solar System.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Percival Lowell was documented, and when

13 March 1855exact date
Bostonattested “Percival Lowell was born on March 13, 1855, in Boston, Massachusetts, the first son of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell.” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell
December 1883month
Koreaattested “He then went to Korea and lived there from December 1883 to March 1884.” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell
1893year
United Statesattested “He moved back to the United States in 1893.” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell

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Places Percival Lowell is documented in

Boston1 presence · 1855Korea1 presence · 1883United States1 presence · 1893

Other places tied to Percival Lowell in the record

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1872 to 1876period
Noble and Greenough Schoolmentioned “Percival graduated from the Noble and Greenough School in 1872 and Harvard College in 1876 with distinction in mathematics.” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell
August 1883month
United Statesmentioned “In August 1883, he served as a foreign secretary and counselor for a special Korean diplomatic mission to the United States.” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell
1886year
Koreamentioned “His time in Korea inspired Chosön: The Land of the Morning Calm (1886, Boston).” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell
1897year
American Philosophical Societymentioned “Lowell was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1897.” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell
1909year
Southern Californiamentioned “In 1909, the sixty-inch Mount Wilson Observatory telescope in Southern California allowed closer observation of the structures Lowell had interpreted as canals, and revealed irregular geological features, probably the result of natural e…” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell
1914 to 1916period
Sproul Observatorymentioned “From 1914 to 1916, a telescope on loan from Sproul Observatory was used to search for Planet X.” source: Wikipedia: Percival Lowell

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