Mappa Selenographica
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The Mappa Selenographica was a detailed lunar map created by German astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich von Mädler. Published between 1834 and 1836, it was the most complete map of the Moon of its time and the first to be divided into quadrants.12
This selenographic chart, a map representing the Moon's surface, included detailed depictions of lunar features. It was accompanied by a volume in 1837 that provided micrometric measurements of crater diameters and mountain elevations. The Mappa Selenographica remained the definitive lunar map until 1878. Beer and Mädler also collaborated on an early map of Mars.312
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Wilhelm Beer…the Moon of his time, Mappa Selenographica (1836). The first lunar map to be divided into quadrants, it contained a detailed representation of the Moon’s face and was accompanied, in 1837, by a volume providing micrometric measurements of the diameters of 148 craters and the elevations of 830 mountains.
Read More…the Moon of his time, Mappa Selenographica (1836). The first lunar map to be divided into quadrants, it contained a detailed representation of the Moon’s face and was accompanied, in 1837, by a volume providing micrometric measurements of the diameters of 148 craters and the elevations of 830 mountains.
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…the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. (1834–36). It was the first lunar map to be divided into quadrants, and it remained unsurpassed in its detail until J.F. Julius Schmidt’s map of 1878. The Mappa Selenographica was accompanied in 1837 by a volume providing micrometric measurements of the…
Read More…the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. (1834–36). It was the first lunar map to be divided into quadrants, and it remained unsurpassed in its detail until J.F. Julius Schmidt’s map of 1878. The Mappa Selenographica was accompanied in 1837 by a volume providing micrometric measurements of the…
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