The Moon - A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
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MAP OF THE MOON
First Quadrant Second Quadrant Third Quadrant Fourth Quadrant APPENDIX Description of Map List of the Maria, or Grey Plains, termed "Seas," &c. List of some of the most Prominent Mountain Ranges, Promontories, Isolated Mountains, and Remarkable Hills List of the Principal Ray-Systems, Light-Surrounded Craters, and Light Spots Position of the Lunar Terminator Lunar Elements Alphabetical List of Formations INTRODUCTION We know, both by tradition and published records, that from the earliest times the faint grey and light spots which diversify the face of our satellite excited the wonder and stimulated the curiosity of mankind, giving rise to suppositions more or less crude and erroneous as to their actual nature and significance. It is true that Anaxagoras, five centuries before our era, and probably other philosophers preceding him, --certainly Plutarch at a much later date--taught that these delicate markings and differences of tint, obvious to every one with normal vision, point to the existence of hills and valleys on her surface; the |
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