The Lowell Observatory, as you will recall, was a bit of an oddity thanks to Percival Lowells obsession with Martian canals, which in the 1910s made it, in every sense, an outpost of astronomical endeavor.
你会记得,珀西瓦尔·洛厄尔
这里潜心研究过火星上的运河,因此洛厄尔天文台是个比较独特的地方。到了20世纪的前10年,它
任何意义上都成了研究天文的前哨阵地。