Lunar landscape
Date
1891
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
34096
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 79mm
width (print): 108mm
width (print): 108mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View of the Moon by telescope showing the features including the Montes Apenninus, parts of the Sea of Serenity and the Sea of Tranquility, and craters including (lower left) Archimedes, Aristillus and Autolycus. The plate is orientated so that north appears at the left of image with west at the top.
Figure 1 from plate 7in Pubblicazioni della Specola Vaticana, vol.1-2 (Rome, Tipografia Vaticana, 1891). This image is described in more detail at pp.108-109 of its accompanying article: “Descrizione della specola per la fotografia celeste…’, by Giuseppe Lais and Federico Mannucci.
Individual lunar features are indicated by a printed key on a tissue overlay in the original volume. This is also inscribed ‘TAVOLA VII’ and ‘REGIONE LUNARE’.
The Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana) was re-founded in 1891. Fr. Giuseppe Lais (1845-1921) studied under Pietro Angelo Secchi FRS (1818-1878).
Figure 1 from plate 7in Pubblicazioni della Specola Vaticana, vol.1-2 (Rome, Tipografia Vaticana, 1891). This image is described in more detail at pp.108-109 of its accompanying article: “Descrizione della specola per la fotografia celeste…’, by Giuseppe Lais and Federico Mannucci.
Individual lunar features are indicated by a printed key on a tissue overlay in the original volume. This is also inscribed ‘TAVOLA VII’ and ‘REGIONE LUNARE’.
The Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana) was re-founded in 1891. Fr. Giuseppe Lais (1845-1921) studied under Pietro Angelo Secchi FRS (1818-1878).
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