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Richard Anthony Proctor
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Early maps of Mars
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Richard Anthony Proctor (born
He is best remembered for having produced one of the earliest maps of Mars in 1867 from 27 drawings by the English observer
His map was later superseded by those of
He used old drawings of Mars dating back to 1666 to try to determine the
A crater on Mars is named after Proctor.
Biography
He was a delicate child, and, his father dying in 1850, his mother attended herself to his education. On his health improving he was sent to
He then read for the bar, but turned to
Being thus obliged to depend upon his writings for the support of his family, and having learned by the fate of his "Saturn and his System" that the general public are not attracted by works requiring arduous study, he cultivated a more popular style. He wrote for a number of periodicals; and although he has stated that he would at this time willingly have turned to stone-breaking on the roads, or any other form of hard and honest but unscientific labor, if a modest competence had been offered him in any such direction, he attained a high degree of popularity, and his numerous works had a wide influence in familiarizing the public with the main facts of astronomy.
His earlier efforts were, however, not always successful. His "Handbook of the Stars" (1866) was refused by Messrs Longmans and Messrs Macmillan, but being privately printed, it sold fairly well. For his "
His literary standing meantime improved, and he became a regular contributor to "
In 1881 he founded "Knowledge", a popular weekly magazine of science (converted into a monthly in 1885), which had a considerable circulation. In it he wrote on a great variety of subjects, including chess and whist.
He was also the author of the articles on astronomy in the "
Elected a fellow of the
His largest and most ambitious work, "Old and New Astronomy", unfortunately left unfinished at his death, was completed by
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* [http://89.234.0.17/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp05684 Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery]
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