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Encyclopedia > Charles Burton

Charles E. Burton (1846June 9, 1882) was an Irish astronomer.


For some time he worked as an assistant to Lord Rosse at Parsonstown, Ireland.


He provided the first observational evidence for the supposed canals on Mars, which were claimed to exist by Giovanni Schiaparelli. He later started to have doubts about the reality of these features.


A crater on Mars was named in his honor.


External links

  • Obituary (http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0043//0000159.000.html)





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Burton, Charles E. (1846-1882) (139 words)
Burton, Charles E. A resource of The Worlds of David Darling
Burton, Charles E. Irish astronomer who, in 1880, was among the first to provide observational support for Schiaparelli's claims of linear markings on the Martian surface.
By May 1882, however, a few months before his death, his confidence in the reality of the canals had waned: "I strongly incline to the opinion expressed by Messrs.
Charles "Chuck" Fields, Ph.D. (1697 words)
Fields, Charles B. and Robert A. Jerin (1996/1998/2001) "'Murder and Mayhem' in the Media: Public Perceptions (and Misperceptions) of Crime and Criminality," in Visions of Change: Justice and the Twenty-First Century (1s,t 2nd and 3rd eds.), Roslyn Muraskin (Ed.), Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Fields, Charles B. and Robert A. Jerin (1994) "Murder and Mayhem in the USA TODAY: A Quantitative Analysis of the National Reporting of States' News," in Media, Process and the Social Construction of Crime: Studies in Newsmaking Criminology, Greg Barak (Ed.), New York: Garland Publishing.
Fields, Charles B., Harlee Field and Frank P. Williams, III (1983) Using and Improving Probation: The Opinion of the Texas Court Judiciary, Final Report of the Judicial Survey Project, Huntsville, TX: Criminal Justice Center.
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