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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Carte générale de la Lune.
General map of the Moon
Moon — map
Carte générale de la Lune.
Editor: Camille Flammarion
Based on: the map of C.M. Gaudibert
Graphic artist: Léon Fenet
Date: 1887
Publication: standalone sheet
Contribution by Ton Lindemann.
Gaudibert, Casimir Marie (1823–1901). Carte générale de la lune dressée sous la direction de Camille Flammarion … dessinée par Léon Fenet. Lithographed map, cut into sections and mounted on linen. Paris: Emile Bertaux, n.d. [1887]. 1205 x 920 mm.
"Rare large-scale lunar map prepared by French astronomer Casimir Marie Gaudibert under the direction of Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), founder and the first president of the Société Astronomique de France and author of numerous popular works on astronomy. Gaudibert's map, drawn by Léon Fenet, introduced six crater names later adopted into the International Astronomical Union's original lunar nomenclature (1935): Carpenter, Flammarion, Frères Henry (later changed to Henry Frères), Mouchez, Nasmyth and Rutherfurd". (E. Whitaker, Mapping and Naming the Moon, pp. 149–50. 43325)
Advertisement about the map, The Physical Review 2/5, 1895
Translated variants:
"A Hold általános térképe"
(Moon's general map), Hungarian edition
Camille Flammarion's Népszerű csillagászat (Popular Astronomy), Az égbolt egyetemes leírása.
Budapest edition by Pallas, 1900
Translated by Pál Hoitsy.
Nomenclature is in two blocks: "Western Mounts and Eastern Mounts"
