An 18th century map of the Moon
Table pour la moyenne Libration & les pleines Lunes publiee dans les memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences de l'annee 1692.
Paris: Hippolyte-Louis Guérin & Jacques Guérin, in John Keill & Pierre-Charles Le Monnier, Institutions astronomiques. 1746. 215mm x 190mm.
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An engraved lunar plate after Giovanni Domenico Cassini, illustrating the mean libration of the Moon together with a detailed mapped representation of its visible surface. The lunar disc is marked with forty numbered reference points, corresponding to named formations including Grimaldi, Kepler, Hermes, and Messala, and identifies the principal maria (lunar "seas").
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