Carte générale de la lune / dressée sous la direction de Camille Flammarion ; par C.-M. Gaudibert ; dessinée par Léon Fenet.

Format:

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Gaudibert, Casimir Marie, 1823-1901.

Contributor:

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925.

Bertaux, Emile, 1840-1903.

Fenet, Léon, artist.

Dujardin, P., engraver.

Thomas, G., publisher.

Monrocq frères éditeurs, printer.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Moon--Maps.

Moon.

Genre:

Maps.

Thematic maps.

Physical Description:

1 map : color, dissected and mounted on linen ; 65.3 cm in diameter, on sheet 113.3 x 87.6 cm

Scale approximately 1:17,500,000 (W 90⁰00ʹ--E 90⁰00ʹ/N 90⁰00ʹ--S 90⁰00ʹ).

paper

polychrome

Cartographic Data:

Scale approximately 1:17,500,000 (W 90⁰00ʹ--E 90⁰00ʹ/N 90⁰00ʹ--S 90⁰00ʹ).

Place of Publication:

[Paris] : G. Thomas, editeur 44 rue N.D. des Champs, Paris, [1887]

Language Note:

In French.

Summary:

Lunar map prepared by amateur French astronomer Casimir Marie Gaudibert (1823-1901) in 1887 under the direction of Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), founder and the first president of the Société astronomique de france and author of numerous popular works on astronomy. Gaudibert's map introduced six crater names later adopted into the International Astronomical Union's original lunar nomenclature in 1935.

Notes:

Dissected into 20 parts.

Hemispherical map of the moon.

Includes names of different craters on the moon under the titles: Premier quartier - Coté Occidental; and: Dernier quartier - Cote Oriental.

"Heliogravure Dujardin. Imprimerie Monrocq"

The map was drawn by Léon Fenet, engraved by P. Dujardin using the héliogravure process and printed at "Imprimerie Monrocq" (Monrocq frères)

Includes lengthy "Avis de l'Editeur" below map signed: E. Bertaux. [Emile Bertaux, 1840-1903]

OCLC:

956766787