Tabula Selenographica: Homann & Doppelmayr, c.1720

Title: Tabula Selenographica Author: Homann & Doppelmayr Date: c.1720 Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Condition: Excellent Inches: 24" x 20 3/4" [Image] Centimeters: 61.54 x 53.21 [Image] Product ID: 003776 Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevellii quam Riccioli Curiosis Rei Sidereae Cultoribus exhibetur à Ioh. Gabr. Doppelmajero Math. P.P. opera Ioh. Baptistae Homanni Noremberge. Map of the Moon and its geography based on observations by astronomers Johannes Hevelius (Polish, 1611-1687) and Giovanni Battista Riccioli (Italian, 1598-1671). Background on Creator(s) Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724) was a leading German cartographer and engraver who founded a prominent map publishing house in Nuremberg in 1702, transforming German cartography by producing detailed, decorative, and scientifically accurate maps and atlases that rivaled those of France and the Netherlands; he