Tabula Selenographica

The Moon in two hemispheres, under both its rival sets of names.

Chart: Tabula Selenographica
Plate: Tabula Selenographica
Astronomer: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
Date: c. 1707
Held by: raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons

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Size

$29.00

The story

Tabula Selenographica, after Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, published by the house of Johann Baptist Homann and dated about 1707: the Moon drawn in two hemispheres. Its full title promises an exact description of the lunar spots according to the naming of the two most eminent astronomers, Hevelius and Riccioli. Two systems of lunar names were then in use, and the map gives both. Hevelius had called the Sea of Moisture Sinus Sirbonis; today it is Mare Humorum. Doppelmayr, a merchant's son born in Nuremberg in 1677, set the rivals side by side and let the Moon keep both its names for a while.

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About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
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Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.

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