Blog:   Lunar Picture of the Day     Posted:   Tuesday 11th of December 2007 5:01 AM

map by Johann Heinrich Mädler, 1834The most important lunar documents of the 19th century are unavailable online and are rarely found even in large libraries. In 1834, Beer and Mädler published the first quadrant of their monumental chart Mappa Selenographica, and their book, Der Mond, followed in 1837. The book was never translated into English [...]