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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian.

✵ 14. March 1835 – 4. July 1910
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Giovanni Schiaparelli Quotes

“Mercury on its axis turns like the Moon:
One side has lasting day, the other night;
One side in everlasting fire doth swoon;
While th'other hides forever from the light.”

Giovanni Schiaparelli

Originally in Latin; translated by Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907)
Quoted in Sky and Telescope, March 2011, p. 33

Light , Night

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