Lowell also launched the search for a ninth planet, beyond Neptune. When Pluto was discovered in 1930 (long after Lowell’s death) at the observatory built by Lowell, he was given credit although the actual discoverer was Clyde Tombaugh. The proposal to name the new planet Pluto won favor in part because the first two letters were the initials of Percival Lowell.
“the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who in 1877 reported the appearance of certain long, thin lines he called canali”
When I first heard this decades ago I thought the word he used was “cannoli”, as in “Leave the gun, take the cannoli”! Lol!