Call Number:

PH-02347

Collection Name:

The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite

Creator:

No. of Items:

25 items

Span Dates:

1885

Description:

Photographically illustrated book, entitled The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite (New York: Scribner & Welford, 1885), containing twenty-four woodburytypes and one photolithograph by James Nasmyth (1808-1890). Titles follow.



958:0260:0001 -- Gassendi;

958:0260:0002 -- Crater of Vesuvius;

958:0260:0003 -- Back of Hand to Illustrate the Origin of Certain Mountain Ranges Resulting from Shrinkage of ther Interior;

958:0260:0004 -- Shrivelled Apple;

958:0260:0005 -- Full Moon;

958:0260:0006 -- Picture Map of the Moon;

958:0260:0007 -- Portion of the Moons Surface;

958:0260:0008 -- Vesuvius;

958:0260:0009 -- Copernicus;

958:0260:0010 -- The Lunar Apennines, Archimedes, &c, &c,;

958:0260:0011 -- Aristotle & Euxodus;

958:0260:0012 -- Triesnecker;

958:0260:0013 -- Theophilus, Cyrillus, & Catharina;

958:0260:0014 -- Ptolemy, Alphons, Arzachael;

958:0260:0015 -- Plato, The Valley of the Alps, Pico, &c;

958:0260:0016 -- Mercator & Campanus;

958:0260:0017 -- Tycho and its Surroundings;

958:0260:0018 -- An Ideal Sketch of “Pico” an Isolated Lunar Mountain 8000 feet high;

958:0260:0019 -- Glass Globe;

958:0260:0020 -- Wargentin;

958:0260:0021 -- Aristarchus & Herodotus;

958:0260:0022 -- Overlapping Crates;

958:0260:0023 -- Normal Lunar Crater;

958:0260:0024 -- Aspect of an Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, as it Would appear as Seen From the Moon;

958:0260:0025 -- Group of Lunar Mountains.

Location(s):

QB 581 N21 HRC-P (958:0260:0001-0025)
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