John Russell, Selenographia

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Set of uncut printed gores and polar caps of the Moon

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John Russell (1745-1806)
Selenographia, London, 1797-1805
London, Science Museum, inv. 1949-117

This is the oldest three-dimensional representation of the Moon. It consists of a lunar globe and a small terrestrial globe. A mechanism allows it to simulate the motion of the Moon's libration.