Hevelius's Moon

One of the first true atlases of the Moon, where craters were named after places on Earth: Sicily, Mount Etna and the Mediterranean.

Made by

Johannes Hevelius

Date

1647

Held by

Shown from the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich copy via e-rara

Medium

Engraving, from Selenographia

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