Mapping the Moon: A Brief History of Lunar Cartography from Galileo to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mapping the Moon

A Brief History of Lunar Cartography from Galileo to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Recommended Reading

Ashworth, William B. The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo, an Exhibition of Rare Books and Maps, October 13, 1989-February 28, 1990. Kansas City, Mo: Lowell Press, for the Linda Hall Library, 1989.

Chaikin, Andrew, and Tom Hanks. A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.

Clark, Phillip. The Soviet Manned Space Program: An Illustrated History of the Men, the Missions, and the Spacecraft. New York: Orion Books, 1988.

Gatland, Kenneth William. Robot Explorers. London: Blandford Press, 1972.

Harvey, Brian. Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration. Berlin: Springer, 2007.

Maran, Stephen P., and Laurence A. Marschall. Galileo’s New Universe: The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2009.

Morton, Oliver. The Moon: A History for the Future. London: The Economist Books, 2020.

Pérez González, Carmen. Selene’s Two Faces: From 17th Century Drawings to Spacecraft Imaging. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Schmitt, Harrison H. Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space. New York: Copernicus Books, in association with Praxis Publishing, 2006.

Whitaker, Ewen A. (Ewen Adair). Mapping and Naming the Moon: A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.