Mars 
"The great interest which the public expect the news of the astronomers on what happens on the planet Mars depends on the very natural desire to know if it is inhabited by intelligent beings, or at least with organic life, animal or even vegetable. "These words show us
Our in his capacity as adviser. In fact, next to the seven published memoirs on Mars for the Accademia dei Lincei and intended for scientists, he also he published several articles addressing a wide audience.
They appeared in journals of wide spread where they were avidly read by a large number of non-specialists, for which the main interest was represented by its presence of life on the planet. In these writings
Schiaparelli salt sull'Ippogrifo of fantasy and never abandons himself to considerations that they could find space in an academic context.
Here is a small but interesting selection:
Mars must certainly be a paradise for water!
And switching to a higher order of ideas, it will be interesting to find what form of social order is more convenient to such a state of affairs, which we have described, if the plot, or rather the community of interest, so they are inevitably linked together the people of each valley, do not make this much more practical and more desirable, that the Earth is not the institution of the socialist collective form of each valley and its inhabitants something similar to a colossal phalanstery that Mars could also become a haven for socialists (...)
of all this, dear reader, I leave to you the further consideration. I descend dall'Ippogrifo; you, if you like, you can continue the sprint. "
From Life on Mars. Excerpt from the magazine "Nature and Art", November 1895.
"We also have a little trust in the fact that Galileo called the kindness of nature, in grace with which she sometimes by unexpected rises a light beam to illuminate topics first believed inaccessible to our speculation, we have a fine example of that chemical in the sky . We hope, therefore, and study. "
From Planet Mars. Excerpt from the magazine "Nature and Art", February 1893.
"The study of all these puzzles has just begun, yet there was certainly nothing on the principles that you will need to support a rational interpretation of the same. All that will depend on progress in the coming years, the photographic representation of Mars. "
From Planet Mars. Excerpt from the magazine "Nature and Art", December 1909.
"As you can see the field of astronomy is not lacking new discoveries and new triumphs. Rather it lacks a sufficient number of scholars armed with instruments suitable for solving more difficult problems.
Large telescopes was discussed above, are, for some time and are still very rare on account of their cost, which is the category for hundreds of dollars.
The proliferation of these and other similar expensive scientific equipment will occur only when nations, by ceasing to waste more of their forces in injure each other, they can deal fairly their happiness and their improvement. Then maybe you will hear a little 'less than Armstrong and Krupp, and a little more than Merz, Cooke and Alvan Clark. "
From The Planet Mars and modern telescopes. Excerpt from the magazine "Nuova Antologia, 1878.
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