Astronomy for amateurs . nd Riccioli, authors of the firstlunar maps (1647, ^651), and they judged it moreprudent to transfer the names of the terrestrial moun-tains to the Moon. The Alps, the Apennines, the Pyre-nees, the Carpathians, are all to be found up there; then,as the vocabulary of the mountains was not adequate,the scientists reasserted their rights, and we meet in theMoon, Aristotle, Plato, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Coper-nicus, Kepler, Newton, as well as other more modernand even contemporaneous celebrities. We have not space to reproduce the general chartof the Moon (that published by
Astronomy for amateurs . nd Riccioli, authors of the firstlunar maps (1647, ^651), and they judged it moreprudent to transfer the names of the terrestrial moun-tains to the Moon. The Alps, the Apennines, the Pyre-nees, the Carpathians, are all to be found up there; then,as the vocabulary of the mountains was not adequate,the scientists reasserted their rights, and we meet in theMoon, Aristotle, Plato, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Coper-nicus, Kepler, Newton, as well as other more modernand even contemporaneous celebrities. We have not space to reproduce the general chartof the Moon (that published by the author measures notless than a meter, with the nomenclature); but the figuresubjoined gives a summary sufficient for the limits ofthis little book. Here are the names of the principallunar mountains, with the numbers corresponding tothem upon the map. The constantly growing progress of optics leads toperpetual new discoveries in science, and at the presenttime we can say that we know the geography of the Moon 246 w i. r ^^ -- 0 -1^ ^^^ VN,
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