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.
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.
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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.
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