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[Dan Luna]

I have a copy of the budget 1916 edition and have scanned in Chapter 7: Topography of the Moon if anyone's interested. This describes a number of lunar features accompanied by some amazing illustrations - cameras weren't good enough to take close ups of the Moon in 1874, so what they did was to make plaster models based on drawings and photograph those instead!

[Carol L]

Thanks Dan, it's bookmarked... this is great!

[Tim2723]

Fantastik Dan! Nasmyth and Carpenter are two of the authors that define the Late Golden Age for me. I'd love to see your copy first-hand one day. Excellent job with the site as well.

I'll ask Watson to add this link to the lunar list.

[Dan Luna]

Glad you enjoyed the chapter - old stuff like this needs to go on the Web before it's lost for ever.

Actually it's Hami's web site, I'm just trying to keep the people on there interested.

[AZDeepSky]

Incredibly interesting text and photos. Many thanks for sharing.