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What translation inaccuracy caused the emergence of the theory of a highly developed civilization on Mars?

In 1877, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli discovered a network of lines on Mars, which he called the word "canali". In Italian, it can mean both natural channels and artificially created channels, but in the translation of his works into English, the term "canals" was used, which applies only to man-made objects. This provoked the emergence of many theories and literary works about a highly developed civilization on the Red Planet. Later it was proved that these channels were just an optical illusion caused by the imperfection of the telescopes of that time.

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