Sun, Moon & Planets
Selenographia — The First Moon Atlas
The founding map of another world.
- Chart
- Selenographia
- Astronomer
- Johannes Hevelius
- Date
- 1647
- Held by
- Published Danzig · Linda Hall Library
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Before Hevelius, no one had truly mapped another world. His Selenographia of 1647 was the first atlas of the Moon — patient telescopic drawings of its mountains, craters, and seas, which he named, poignantly, after the mountains and waters of the Earth. It founded the science of mapping the lunar surface and stood as its standard for a generation. The moment humanity first drew a map of somewhere it could never walk.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Selenographia — The First Moon Atlas printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Published Danzig · Linda Hall Library — 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.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
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.
