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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Lunae Facies per Diopt. Instrumenta
Face of the Moon through optical instruments
Moon — drawing
1665
1672
Soure: Kircher, A. 1665; Mundus subterraneus, quo universae denique naturae divitiae, Amsterodami (Amsterdam)
Image courtesy of Ton Lindemann.
TYPUS CORPORIS LUNARIS PANSELINI, UNA CUM MACULIS, FACULIS, MONTIBUS,
Fontiumque ebullitionibus, magno studio et labore à Mathematicis Collegij Romani Soc. Jesu duce et
Præside P. Scheinero quæ ab Anno 1636 usque ad Annum 1650 novis subinde additis observata
et in hanc formam redacta fuerunt.
English translation
Representation of the full lunar body, together with its spots, bright regions, mountains, and fountain-like eruptions, which were observed with great study and labor by the mathematicians of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus, under the guidance and presidency of Father Scheiner, from the year 1636 up to the year 1650, with new additions made from time to time, and were reduced into this form.