The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.

Name: The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite.
Author: Nasmyth, James

Nasmyth, James

Moon

CHAPTER VI.
  THE GENERAL ASPECT OF THE LUNAR SURFACE.                             51
      Pre-Telescopic Ideas—Human Countenance—Other supposed
          Resemblances—Portrait of Full Moon—Permanence of
          Features—Rotation of Moon—Solar Period and Solar Day on
          Moon—Libration—Diurnal—In Latitude—In Longitude—Visible
          and Invisible Hemispheres—Telescopic Scrutiny—Galileo’s
          Views—Features Visible with Low Power—Low Powers on small
          and large Telescopes—Salient
          Features—Craters—Plains—Bright Streaks—Mountains—Higher
          Telescopic Powers—Detail Scrutiny of Features
          therewith—Discussion of High Powers—Education of
          Eye—Highest practicable Power—Size of smallest Visible
          Objects


                                 CHAPTER VII.
  TOPOGRAPHY OF THE MOON.                                              65
      Reasons for Mapping the Moon—Early Maps—Labours of
          Langreen—Hevelius—Riccioli—Cassini—Schroeter—Modern
          Maps—Lohrman’s—Beer and Maedler’s—Excellence of the
          last—Measurement of Mountain Heights—Need of a Picture
          Map—Formation of our own—Skeleton Map—Table of conspicuous
          Objects—Descriptions of special
          Objects—Copernicus—Gassendi—Eudoxus and
          Aristotle—Triesnecker—Theophilus, Cyrillus, and
          Catharina—Thebit—Plato—Valley of the
          Alps—Pico—Tycho—Wargentin—Aristarchus and
          Herodotus—Walter—Archimedes and the Apennines


                                CHAPTER VIII.
  ON LUNAR CRATERS.                                                    89
      Use of term Crater for Terrestrial and Lunar Formations—Truly
          Volcanic Nature of Lunar Craters—Terrestrial and Lunar
          Volcanic Areas compared—Similarity—Difference only in
          Magnitude—Central Cone—Found in great and small Lunar
          Craters—Formative Process of Terrestrial Volcanoes—Example
          from Vesuvius—Vast Size of Lunar Craters—Reasons
          assigned—Origin of Moon’s Volcanic Force—Aqueous Vapour
          Theory untenable—Expansion upon Solidification
          Theory—Formative Process of a Lunar Crater—Volcanic
          Vent—Commencement of Eruption—Erection of
          Rampart—Hollowing of Crater—Formation of Central Cone—Of
          Plateau—Various Heights of Plateaux—Coneless
          Craters—Filled-up Craters—Multiple Cones—Craters on
          Plateau—Double Ramparts—Landslip Terraces—Rutted
          Ramparts—Overlapping and Superposition of
          Craters—Source-Connection of such—Froth-like Aggregations
          of Craters—Majestic Dimensions of Larger Craters

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