Moon Maps

With this month's lunar eclipse, and the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, I've been thinking a lot about moon maps and our general fascination with the moon throughout the course of human history.

Copernicus, "The Picture of the Century"

Surveyor VI Lunar Mosaic

Ranger VIII close-up of the Moon, 1964

James Nasmyth 1875 Heliotype "of an ideal lunar landscape" - plaster model