Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (born 1835)

Giovanni Schiaparelli

Italian astronomer and science historian (1835–1910)

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Schiaparelli established the Martian system of nomenclature still in use today; before him, features of the planet bore the names of contemporary astronomers, similar to the lunar map of van Langren…