William H. Bonney

FOCAL POINTAn Eclipse Chaser's BestiarySo YOU'RE planning to join a tour to the ends of the Earth to greet the Moon's shadow with craned neck, expensive equipment, and banshee wail. You're smart (otherwise you wouldn't know that the experience is well worth a third mortgage or sacrificing your...

focal pointMartian Canals: Is Lowell Vindicated?I'M AMUSED, and at times angered, atthe way some people berate Percival Lowell for his sightings of "canals" on Mars. Books and articles remind us, almost ad nauseam, that Lowell's two chief antagonists, E. E. Barnard and E. M. Antoniadi, "never saw a...