1704
Giancomo Miraldi notices "white spots" at the poles, and finds that the southern cap isn't focused on the rotational pole.
1719
Miraldi ponders (accurately) if the "white spots" are ice covers.
1719
Mars is in resistance, and nearer to Earth than it would be until the year 2003. The brilliance overhead causes alarm.
1727
Jonathan Quick's Gulliver's Movements portrayed the Martian moons, albeit this may simply be happenstance. "They have similarly found two lesser Stars, or Satellites, which rotate around Mars, wherof the deepest is far off from the Focal point of the Essential planet precisely three of his breadths, and the peripheral five; the previous spins Over the course of about ten Hours and the last option in 21 and a Half."
1777-1783
Sir William Herschel (1738 - 1822), the English Space expert Imperial, concentrated on Mars with telescopes he fabricated himself. Herschel accepted that every one of the planets were possessed and that there were even clever creatures living in a cool region underneath the sun.
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