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e luminous parts and the mountains, it was at first proposed to call them after the most illustrious astronomers, but the fear of giving offense acted as a check on Hevelius and Riccioli, authors of the first lunar maps (1647, 1651), and they judged it more prudent to transfer the names of the terrestrial mountains to the Moon. The Alps, the Apennines, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians, are all to be found up there; then, as the vocabulary of the mountains was not adequate, the scientists reasserted their rights, and we meet in the Moon, Aristotle, Plato, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, as well as other more modern and even contemporaneous celebrities. We have not space to reproduce the general chart of the Moon (that published by the author measures not less than a meter, with the nomenclature); but the figure subjoined gives a summary sufficient for the limits of this little book. Here are the names of the principal lunar mountains, with the numbers corresponding to them upon the map. [Illustration: FIG. 71.--Map of the Moon. (From Fowler's "Telescopic Astronomy.") 1 Furnerius 2 Petavius 3 Langrenus 4 Macrobius 5 Cleomedes 6 Endymion 7 Altas 8 Hercules 9 Romer 10 Posidonius 11 Fracastorius 12 Theophilus 13 Piccolomini 14 Albategnius 15 Hipparchus 16 Manilius 17 Eudoxus 18 Aristotle 19 Cassini 20 Aristillus 21 Plato 22 Archimedes 23 Eratosthenes 24 Copernicus 25 Ptolemy 26 Alphonsus 27 Arzachel 28 Walter 29 Clavius 30 Tycho 31 Bullialdus 32 Schiller 33 Schickard 34 Gassendi 35 Kepler 36 Grimaldi 37 Aristarchus A Mare Crisum B Mare Fercunditatis C Mare Nectaris D Mare Tranquilitatis E Mare Serenitatis F Mare Imbrium G Sinus Iridum H Oceanus Procellarum I Mare Humorum K Mare Nubium V Altai Mountains W Mare Vaporum X Apennine Mountains Y Caucasus Mountains Z Alps] The constantly growing progress of optics leads to perpetual new discoveries in sci
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