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- Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio (Selenography, or A Description of The Moon) was printed in 1647 and is a milestone work by Johannes Hevelius. It...
- Hevelius's Selenographia, showing Alhasen [sic] representing reason, and Galileo representing the senses...
- famous scholars. In 1647, Johannes Hevelius produced the rival work Selenographia, which was the first lunar atlas. Hevelius ignored the nomenclature...
- Hevelius's Selenographia, showing Alhazen [sic] representing reason, and Galileo representing the senses....
- discovered the Moon's libration in longitude, and published his results in Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio (1647), a work which entitles him to be called...
- Al-Haytham as seen by the West: on the frontispiece of Selenographia Alhasen [sic] represents knowledge through reason and Galileo knowledge through the...
- 17th century illustration of the Hypothesis Tychonica from Hevelius' Selenographia, 1647 page 163, whereby the Sun, Moon, and sphere of stars orbit the...
- Hevelius publishes the first comparatively detailed map of the Moon in his Selenographia (Danzig). January 17 – Elisabeth Hevelius, Danzig astronomer (died 1693)...
- periscope (which he called a "polemoscope") with lenses in 1647 in his work Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio [Selenography, or an account of the Moon]. Hevelius...
- Sansoni, 1948. Discourse on Comets Letters on Sunspots Nuncius (journal) Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio "A Very Rare Book". The New Yorker. Retrieved...