A number of textbooks and popular works on astronomy deal more or less
fully with the Moon. Among them the following may be mentioned.
MOULTON, FOREST RAY--Introduction to Astronomy. Macmillan
& Co., New York. 1916. 577 pp.
YOUNG, CHARLES A.--A Textbook of General Astronomy. Ginn
& Co., Boston. 1898. 630 pp.
TODD, DAVID P.--Stars and Telescopes. Little, Brown & Co.,
Boston. 1899. 419 pp.
The following are some works which treat exclusively of the Moon.
NASMYTH, JAMES and CARPENTER, JAMES--The Moon. John
Murray, London. 1885. 213 pp. 25 "Woodburytype"
plates and several text figures.
PICKERING, WILLIAM H.--The Moon. Doubleday, Page & Co.,
New York. 1903. Quarto. 103 pp. and many full-sized
plates.
PROCTOR, RICHARD A.--The Moon. Longmans, Green & Co.,
London. 1898. 314 pp.
GILBERT, GROVE K.--The Moon's Face. Bulletin of the Philosophical
Society of Washington, 1892-93. Vol. 12, pp.
241-292.
SHALER, NATHANIEL S.--A Comparison of the Features of the
Earth and the Moon. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.
1907. Vol. 34, pp. 1-79. 25 plates.
[Illustration: LEAFLET 6. PLATE II.
CHART OF THE MOON'S SURFACE. AFTER NASMYTH.
The figures refer to the names given on pp. 11 and 12 and the use of
the chart with the model will enable the reader to name the different
features of the moon.]
PRINTED BY FIELD MUSEUM PRESS
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Transcriber Note
The list of "topographic features" (pp. 11-12) have some numbers
missing (115, 116) and a comparison with Nasmyth and Carpenter's The
Moon was missing those numbers but several other numbers were repeated.
The repeated numbers appear to represent craters too close to split out.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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