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Noun: Giovanni Schiaparelli
  1. Italian astronomer who first noted lines (which he called canals) on the surface of Mars (1835-1910)
    - Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli

Type of: astronomer, stargazer [informal], uranologist

Encyclopedia: Giovanni Schiaparelli