The Catalog of Planetary Maps.
Sources: The research that led to this catalog was supported by Fulbright Hungary Grant No. 1222202, awarded to H. Hargitai for research at USGS Astrogeology, Flagstaff, Arizona (advisor: Trent Hare), and by the ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography (advisor: Kira Shingareva). Most of the data is based on the inventory of the map library of USGS Astrogeology.
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Format: book plate
11 maps
| # | Title | Map No. | Lead Author | Artist | Target | Quad. | Scale | Year | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #5004 |
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Donald Grant's plastic map of the Moon Das Weltall. Meyers Kinderbibliotek 1998 (German), Atlas of Space (First Discovery/Atlas) (English) / Atlas du ciel… | Grant, Donald | Moon | 1995 | |||||
| #284 |
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Map of Mars 1896-97 Map of Mars, 1896-97 Telescopic Lowell Observatory Book plate The London Geographical Institute / Georg Philip and s… | Plate 8 | Douglass, Andrew Ellicott | Mars | 1905 | The London Geographical Institute / Georg Philip and son Ltd | |||
| #220 | Map of the South Pole of Mars showing the polar cap and its changes in 1894 | Lowell, Percival | Mars | 1894 | ||||||
| #179 | Die Mondkarte The Moon map | Tab XII | Moon | 1883 | ||||||
| #180 | Legenda zu Rutherford's Mondphotographie | Tab XV | Moon | 1883 | ||||||
| #156 |
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Map 156 Littrow JJ, 1878 Die Wunder des Himmels. Berlin, Verlan von Gustav Hempel. Sechste auflage | Tafel III | Littrow, Joseph Johann | Moon | 1878 | Verlag von Gustav Hempel | |||
| #143 | (overview map) | Neison, Edmund | Moon | 1876 | ||||||
| #144 | Detail maps of craters Gassendi, Maginus, Theophilus | Neison, Edmund | Moon | 5.8M | 1876 | |||||
| #140 | Map 140 | Herschel, William | Mars | 1873 | ||||||
| #79 |
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Figure de la Lune dans ses moyennes librations, avec les noms de ses principales taches suivant Riccioli et suivant Hevelius. Figure of the Moon in its mean librations, with the names of its principal spots according to Riccioli and Hevelius Astronomie par Jerome le Francaus (La Lande) - Troisieme edition, revue et augmentée, Paris, Desaint, Didot L'Ainé, MDCC… | Torn III Pag 344 / Astronomie Pl. XXXX / Fig. 282 Cette figure est renversé | de la Lande, Jerome | Moon | 1792 | Desaint; Didot L'Ainé | |||
| #38 |
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Tabula Selenographica : in visibilis Lunae Hemisphaerio orthographicam delineationem exhibens Marium, Sinuum, Insularum, Continentium, Promontoriorum, Lacium, Paludum, Montium, Planitierum, et Vallium / adminiculo Tubi Optici à Clariss. D. Ioanne Hevelio detectorum Selenographic table showing the visible hemisphere of the Moon in orthographic projection 1696 Joanne Zahn (1696) Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirablium sciendorum in qua MUNDI MIRAB… | Hevelius, Johnnis | Moon | 1696 |