Michel Florent van Langren, Plenilunii Lumina Austriaca Philippica

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

Michel Florent van Langren, Plenilunii Lumina Austriaca Philippica

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Michel Florent van Langren (1600-1675)
Plenilunii Lumina Austriaca Philippica, 1645
Edinburgh, Crawford Library

This is the oldest map of the Moon showing the names proposed by the author for identifying the most prominent locations on the Earth's satellite. It marked the beginning of scientific selenography, sparking the debate on the naming of the Moon's features.