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Creator: Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel, 1671-1750.
Title: Tabula selenographica [cartographic material] : in qua Lunarium macularum exacta descriptio secundum nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum astronomorum tam Hevelii quan Riccioli curiosis rei sidereae cultoribus exhibetur / a Ioh, Gabr. Doppelmajero Math. P.P. opera Ioh. Baptistae Homanni.
Scale: Scale indeterminable.
Publisher: Norinbergae [Nurnberg] : Opera Ioh. Baptistae Homanni, [1742?]
Date: 1742
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map : col. ; 2 hemispheres each 28.3 in diam., on sheet 57.7 x 68.2 cm.
Notes: Double hemispherical map of the moon with hand-coloured cartouches in the upper left and right corners.

In upper right margin: 11.

Four blocks of text below map: Nullum inter corpora coelestia, ex quo tempore veteres sacrie Uraniie addicti omne ... clipticos quam eorum partes exacte describenda, huic tabulae apposuimus.

In upper right cartouche: Sit maculosa licet, tamen est formosa Diana.

Includes 2 solar figures: Fig. A and Fig. B.

Possibly plate 11 from: Atlas novus coelestis. Norinbergae : Heredes Hommanianes, 1742.

NUC, pre 1956, Vol. 147, p. 107.

Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm4086
Subjects: Moon -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Astronomy -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Celestial charts -- 1742.
Call Number: MAP RM 4086
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm4086