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work on selenography, and named the lunar
features after eminent men. Riccioli also
made lunar charts. In 1692 Cassini made a
chart of the full moon. Since then we have
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the charts of SchrAter, Beer and MAdler
(1837), and of Schmidt, of Athens (1878);
and, above all, the photographic atlas by
Loewy and Puiseux.
The details of the moon’s surface re-
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