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{{short description|Milestone work by Johannes Hevelius}}
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[[Image:Selenography.jpg|thumb|125px|Title page]]
'''''Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio''''' (''Selenography, or A Description of The Moon'') was printed in 1647 and is a milestone work by [[Johannes Hevelius]]. It includes the first detailed map of the Moon, created from Hevelius's personal observations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lyons |first1=Martyn |title=Books: A Living History |date=2011 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |isbn=978-0-500-29115-3 |page=74}}</ref> In his treatise, Hevelius reflected on the difference between his own work and that of [[Galileo Galilei]]. Hevelius remarked that the quality of Galileo's representations of the [[Moon]] in ''[[Sidereus nuncius]]'' (1610) left something to be desired. ''Selenography'' was dedicated to King [[Ladislaus IV of Poland]] and along with [[Riccioli]]/[[Francesco Maria Grimaldi|Grimaldi]]'s ''Almagestum Novum'' became the standard work on the Moon for over a century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/cyberspace/moon/observing.html |title= Adler Planetarium / CyberSpace / The Moon / Observing the Moon |author= |accessdate=2007-09-23 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928142531/http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/cyberspace/moon/observing.html |archivedate=2007-09-28}}</ref> There are many copies that have survived, including those in [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]], in the library of [[Polish Academy of Sciences]], in the Stillman Drake Collection at the [[Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library|Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library]] at the University of Toronto, and in the [[Gunnerus Library]] at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.poland.pl/archives/modernera/article,,id,269086.htm |title=Selenographia by Johann Hevelius |author= |accessdate=2007-09-23 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206142046/http://www.poland.pl/archives/modernera/article,,id,269086.htm |archivedate=2012-02-06}}</ref>
[[File:Selenographia map of moon.jpg|thumb|250px|Map of the Moon]]
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==External links==
*[http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/160230 ''Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio'']
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[[Category:1647 books]]
[[Category:Lunar science]]
[[Category:Astronomy books]]
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