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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Icon Lunaris
Lunar image
Moon — map
Courtesy of EA Whitaker
ICON LUNARIS
Ex Duodecim ipsius Phasib. a prima scilicet post ☌ usq. ad ☍ subsequentem mense Octobris 1662.
Mutinae ex Astronomica Malvasiana Specula per exquisitum vigintiquattuor Palmarum Telescopium diligentissime delineata
à Geminiano Montanario I.V.D. Mutinensi, Ill.mi et Exc.mi Dñi Marchionis Cornelii Malvasiae Astronomicorum Studioso.
Lunar Image / Map of the Moon
Drawn from twelve of its phases, namely from the first after conjunction up to the following opposition, in the month of October 1662.
Very carefully drawn at Modena, from the Malvasian astronomical observatory, with an excellent twenty-four-palm telescope,
by Geminiano Montanari, Doctor of both laws, of Modena, a student/devotee of astronomical matters connected with the most illustrious and excellent lord Marquis Cornelio Malvasia.