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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Mappa SELENOGRAPHICA
Scale 1: 46 000 000
Selenographic map
Moon — map
'Mondoberflaeche' ('Surface of the Moon')
Die sichtbare Seite der Mond-Oberfläche bei voller Beleuchtung (The visible side of the moon's surface with full lighting)
Hemispherical map of the Moon.
Nach Beer u. Madler's Karte. (Based on Beer and Madler's map)
Simplified from the Moon maps published in 'Mappa Selenographica' written by Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Madler (1794-1874) in Berlin, Germany, 1837
Nomenclature: German/Latin
Johann Heinrich von Madler
Scale [ca. 1:46 000 000]
Mappa
SELENOGRAPHICA
totam Lunae hemisphaeram visibilem complectens
Observationibus propriis
secundum projectionem orthographicam
quatuor Sectionibus
constructa et delineata
SUAE MAJESTATI FRIDERICO SEXTO
REGI DANIAE ILLUSTRISSIMO
summa veneratione
dedicata,
Auctoribus
Gulielmo Beer et Joanne Henrico Mädler
Editio Genuina
BEROLINI
Ex Autographo in lapidem incidit Carolus Vogel
Apud Simon Schropp & Soc.
English translation
Selenographic Map
embracing the entire visible hemisphere of the Moon,
from the authors’ own observations,
constructed and drawn
in four sections
according to the orthographic projection.
Dedicated with the highest veneration
to His Majesty Frederick VI,
the most illustrious King of Denmark,
by the authors
Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Mädler.
Original edition
Berlin
Engraved on stone from the original drawing by Carl Vogel.
Published by Simon Schropp & Co.
Four-part 1834 edition (courtesy Ton Lindemann)
