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Nathaniel Everett Green

Nathaniel Everett Green FRAS (21 August 1823 – 10 November 1899) was an English painter, art teacher and astronomer. He professionally painted landscapes and portraits, and also gained fame with his drawings of planets. • Illustration — Nathaniel Green's Mars map Born in Bristol, the son of Benjamin Holder Green (1793–1865), then a haberdasher, and Elizabeth ‘Betsey’ née Everett (1795–1837); his interest in astronomy dated from 1859 when he built a telescope for himself. He produced "soft-pencil" drawings of Mars in 1877, which were widely known.

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Nathaniel Everett Green

Map of Mars drawn by Nathaniel Everett Green in 1877 (died 1899).Green used Richard Anthony Proctor 's nomenclature and introduced some of his own; these names were later superseded by the nomenclature of Giovanni Schiaparelli. Thus, for example the "Kaiser Sea" is the modern-day Syrtis Major Planum, and "Secchi Continent" is Tharsis.)

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Born
1823
Died
1899 · St Albans.
Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupation
astronomer · painter

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Nathaniel Everett Green FRAS (21 August 1823 – 10 November 1899) was an English painter, art teacher and astronomer. He professionally painted landscapes and portraits, and also gained fame with his drawings of planets. • Illustration — Nathaniel Green's Mars map Born in Bristol, the son of Benjamin Holder Green (1793–1865), then a haberdasher, and Elizabeth ‘Betsey’ née Everett (1795–1837); his interest in astronomy dated from 1859 when he built a telescope for himself. He produced "soft-pencil" drawings of Mars in 1877, which were widely known.

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