Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio

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Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio (Selenography, or A Description of The Moon) was printed in 1647 and is a milestone work by

Riccioli/Grimaldi's Almagestum Novum became the standard work on the Moon for over a century.[2] There are many copies that have survived, including those in Bibliothèque nationale de France, in the library of Polish Academy of Sciences, in the Stillman Drake Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library at the University of Toronto, and in the Gunnerus Library at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.[3]

Map of the Moon

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  2. ^ "Adler Planetarium / CyberSpace / The Moon / Observing the Moon". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
  3. ^ "Selenographia by Johann Hevelius". Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2007-09-23.

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