9780521622486 - mapping and naming the moon: a history of lunar cartography and nomenclature von whitaker, ewen a. (1 Ergebnisse)
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4to (25.5 cm), XIX, 242 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket (binding slightly rubbed at extremities). The definitive scholarly history of lunar cartography and nomenclature, written by one of the leading authorities on the subject. The book opens with the fundamental question that re-emerged during…the Apollo programme—why lunar sites such as "Tranquility Base" were so named—and uses this as a point of entry into a complex history marked by scientific rivalry, institutional politics, and repeated disputes over priority and authority. Whitaker emphasises that lunar nomenclature has long been shaped not only by observational astronomy, but also by controversy, "intrigues, politics, and acrimony," particularly from the seventeenth century onward. The study is organised into four major chronological eras. The first covers the origins of lunar mapping from pre-telescopic conceptions through the work of Harriot and Galileo, Gassendi, Van Langren and the early development of systematic nomenclature, Hevelius's Selenographia, and Riccioli's influential naming system, much of which remains in use. The second era follows the gradual refinement of selenography through the work of figures such as Wren, Hooke, Huygens, Cassini, Mayer, Lambert, Schröter, Lohrmann, and Beer and Mädler. The third examines nineteenth-century mapping efforts, including photographic techniques and the drive toward international standardisation culminating in the work of the British Association and the International Astronomical Union. The fourth addresses the Space Age, including the establishment of modern nomenclature guidelines, the mapping of the lunar far side, and the eventual resolution of competing naming systems. Extensive appendices provide full nomenclature lists from major historical mapping systems, including those of Van Langren, Hevelius, Riccioli, Schröter, and Mädler, as well as IAU resolutions and the NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. A comprehensive bibliography concludes the volume. An essential reference work for the history of astronomy, lunar cartography, and planetary nomenclature.
