Fig. 17. Map of the planet Mars in Mercator’s projection according to drawing by Schiaparelli. A comparison with the drawing by Antoniadi ([Fig. 17a]) suggests that Schiaparelli has made a somewhat diagrammatic picture, which sets forth a very great number of strictly straight “canals.”
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Fig. 17a. Map of the planet Mars in Mercator’s projection, drawn in 1909 by E. M. Antoniadi.
| Explanations: | Meredies = south; Oriens = east; Occidens = west; |
| Septentrio = north; Nix = snow. | |
| Abbreviations: | M = Mare, sea; S = Sinus, bay; Fr = Fretum, channel; |
| L = Lacus, lake; Fl = Flumen, river; | |
| R = Regio, region; I = Insula, island; | |
| Pr = Promontorium, cape. |
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