1740 – Catalog of Planetary Maps

Ulloa’s map of the Moon

Selenographia de la Luna – Juan Y Ulloa Observaciones astronómicas y phisicas hechas de orden de Su Majestad en los reinos del Perú. Madrid, 1748. Courtesy EA Whitaker

Tobias Mayer’s Lunar Globe (1750)

Publisher: Marbach : Tobias-Mayer-Museum; Bremen; Berlin Ars Mechanica Marbach Tobias-Mayer-Verein 2008 Original: 1750, Reconstruction (6 plates): 2008 Technology: Wooden globe Cartographers of the reprint: Günther Oestmann und Felix Lühning (2008) History: By 1750, made the Göttingen astronomer Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) made 24 map segments for the first reliable globe of the moon. The project was […]

Tobias Mayer’s maps of the Moon (1748, 1775)

Date : 1748 Title: Lunar eclipse map / Représentation de l’eclipse partiale de la Lune qui arrivera la nuit du 8 au 9 d’août, 1748 dressée suivant les lois de la vraie projection et accompagné d’un imprimé qui lui servira d’éclaircissement / par T. Maier. Publisher: Homann. Cartographer: Mayer JT Source: ark:/12148/btv1b7710369w Nomenclature: Riccioli Language: […]

Hevelius’ map of the Moon (1645-1746)

1645 Three maps: one full moon, one shadowed synthetic realistic engraving and a map-like representation. Publication : 1647, Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Gedani:TypisHunefelianis. Cartographer: Johann Höwelcke (Hevelius) Selenographica, Source Selenographica, Caput VIII. Source (e-rara) 1696 Joanne Zahn (1696) Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirablium sciendorum in qua MUNDI MIRABILIS OECONOMIA. Plate: Tom. 1, page 40. Norimbergae [Nuremberg] […]