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Carte générale de la lune dressée sous la direction de Camille Flammarion, par C. M. Gaudibert, dessinée par Léon Fenet

Very rare lithographed wall map of the near side of the moon based on telescopic drawings noted for their accuracy, drawn by astronomer & selenographer Casimir Gaudibert (1823-1901) under the direction of the famous astronomer Camille Flammarion, founder in 1883 of the Observatory of Juvisy – sur – Orge, and designed by Leon Fenet. The extremely detailed map, made after his own drawings, figure all lunar reliefs, craters, mountain ranges, including the famous Sea of Tranquility. Long descriptions lists the 509 lunar craters, all bearing famous names with longitude for each. In 1896 Gaudibert realized a lunar globe from the same map and published in very few copies also by Emile Bertaux. Gaudibert moved to Belgium where he was a preacher involved with L’ Église missionnaire but was evicted from his pulpit because some of his teaching was considered as unacceptable. From then on he was a teacher in the Plymouth Brethren assemblies in Belgium. (T C F Stunt).- Sheehan/ Dobbins. Epic Moon. A history of lunar exploration, pp. 197/198.

Very rare lithographed wall map of the near side of the moon based on telescopic drawings noted for their accuracy, drawn by astronomer & selenographer Casimir Gaudibert (1823-1901) under the direction of the famous astronomer Camille Flammarion, founder in 1883 of the Observatory of Juvisy – sur – Orge, and designed by Leon Fenet. The extremely detailed map, made after his own drawings, figure all lunar reliefs, craters, mountain ranges, including the famous Sea of Tranquility. Long descriptions lists the 509 lunar craters, all bearing famous names with longitude for each. In 1896 Gaudibert realized a lunar globe from the same map and published in very few copies also by Emile Bertaux. Gaudibert moved to Belgium where he was a preacher involved with L’ Église missionnaire but was evicted from his pulpit because some of his teaching was considered as unacceptable. From then on he was a teacher in the Plymouth Brethren assemblies in Belgium. (T C F Stunt).- Sheehan/ Dobbins. Epic Moon. A history of lunar exploration, pp. 197/198.