Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21977

    Moon

    Date
    1775
    Creator
    Joel Paul Kaltenhofer (1716 - 1777, German) , Engraver
    After
    Tobias Mayer (1723 - 1762, German) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Library reference
    54971
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 330mm
    width (print): 230mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > Moon
    Description
    A map of the moon showing the lunar surface.

    Inscribed ‘T. Mayer del. J. P. Kaltenhofer sculp. Gottingae.’

    Plate to Opera inedita; vol. I by Tobia Mayer and Georgius Christophorus Lichtenberg (Gottingae, 1775). The collected works of German astronomer Tobia Mayer was published posthumously.

    Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer and inventor.
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