Lunar landscape
Date
1891
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Library reference
34096
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 79mm
width (print): 109mm
width (print): 109mm
Subject
Content object
Description
View of the Moon by telescope showing a variety of craters from Agrippa in the west to Thebit and Birt in the east. The crater Herschel is also marked (lower centre). The plate is orientated so that north appears at the left of image with east at the top.
Figure 2 from plate 7 in 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 2 from plate 7 in 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).
Associated place