The Moon

Name: The Moon
Author: Farrington, Oliver C. (Oliver Cummings)

Farrington, Oliver C. (Oliver Cummings)

Lunar geology; Moon; Moon -- Surface

WARGENTIN. 26. SCHICKARD. 28. Wargentin is an object quite unique of
its kind--a crater about 52 miles across, that to all appearance has
been filled to the brim with lava that has been left to consolidate.
There are evidences of the remains of a rampart, especially on the
southwest portion of the rim. The general aspect of Wargentin has been
compared to that of a "thin cheese." The terraced and rutted exterior
of the rampart has all the details of a true crater. The surface of
the high plateau is marked by a few ridges branching from a point
nearly in the center.

Schickard is one of the finest examples of a walled plain. It is 153
miles in diameter. Within its rampart are 16 smaller craters and
without, numberless others.

The following are the names of topographic features of the Moon which
can be located by the corresponding numbers on the accompanying chart.

Newton.                59. Pontanus.
Short.                 60. Poisson.
Simpelius.             61. Aliacensis.
Manzinus.              62. Werner.
Moretus.               63. Pitatus.
Gruemberger.           64. Hesiodus.
Casatus.               65. Mercator.
Klaproth.              66. Vitello.
Wilson.                67. Fourier.
Kircher.               68. Lagrange.
Bettinus.              69. Vieta.
Blancanus.             70. Doppelmayer.
Clavius.               71. Campanus.
Scheiner.              72. Kies.
Zuchius.               73. Purbach.
Segner.                74. La Caille.
Bacon.                 75. Playfair.
Nearchus.              76. Azophi.
Vlacq.                 77. Sacrobosco.
Hommel.                78. Fracastorius.
Licetus.               79. Santbech.
Maginus.               80. Petavius.
Longomontanus.         81. Wilhelm Humboldt.
Schiller.              82. Polybius.
Phocylides.            83. Geber.
Wargentin.             84. Arzachael.
Inghirami.             85. Thebit.
Schickard.             86. Bullialdus.
Wilhelm I.             87. Hippalus.
Tycho.                 88. Cavendish.
Saussure.              89. Mersenius.
Stoefler.              90. Gassendi.
Maurolycus.            91. Lubiniezky.
Barocius.              92. Alpetragius.
Fabricius.             93. Airy.
Metius.                94. Almanon.
Fernelius.             95. Catharina.
Heinsius.              96. Cyrillus.
Hainzel.               97. Theophilus.
Bouvard.               98. Colombo.
Piazzi.                99. Vendelinus.
Ramsden.              100. Langreen.
Capuanus.             101. Goclenius.
Cichus.               102. Guttemberg.
Wurzelbauer.          103. Isidorus.
Gauricus.             104. Capella.
Hell.                 105. Kant.
Walter.               106. Descartes.

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