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Giovanni Schiaparelli claimed to have seen 'canali' on Mars, meaning channels but it was mistranslated to canals.
Percival Lowell then made many observations and drawings of what he perceived to be canals and published them
These claims turned out to be false.

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Percival Lowell discovered Martian canals.

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