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The Moon

Chapter 5: SOURCES OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE MOON
By Oliver C. Farrington
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A concise survey explains the Moon's physical properties, orbit, and visible features, giving distances, size, mass, density, and the synchronous rotation that keeps one hemisphere mostly facing Earth while libration reveals about four-sevenths of the surface. It describes absence of atmosphere, extreme temperature swings, and silence, then interprets surface forms as products of intense volcanic activity, comparing lunar vulcanoids to terrestrial volcanoes. Detailed descriptions of major craters and groups—noting diameters, ramparts, terracing, central peaks, landslips, and long chasms—illustrate the variety and scale of lunar topography and geological evidence.

SOURCES OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE MOON

A number of textbooks and popular works on astronomy deal more or less fully with the Moon. Among them the following may be mentioned.

Moulton, Forest Ray—Introduction to Astronomy. Macmillan & Co., New York. 1916. 577 pp.

Young, Charles A.—A Textbook of General Astronomy. Ginn & Co., Boston. 1898. 630 pp.

Todd, David P.—Stars and Telescopes. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. 1899. 419 pp.

The following are some works which treat exclusively of the Moon.

Nasmyth, James and Carpenter, James—The Moon. John Murray, London. 1885. 213 pp. 25 "Woodburytype" plates and several text figures.

Pickering, William H.—The Moon. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. 1903. Quarto. 103 pp. and many full-sized plates.

Proctor, Richard A.—The Moon. Longmans, Green & Co., London. 1898. 314 pp.

Gilbert, Grove K.—The Moon's Face. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 1892-93. Vol. 12, pp. 241-292.

Shaler, Nathaniel S.—A Comparison of the Features of the Earth and the Moon. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 1907. Vol. 34, pp. 1-79. 25 plates.

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 PLATE II

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CHART OF THE MOON'S SURFACE. AFTER NASMYTH.

The figures refer to the names given on pp. 11 and 12 and the use of the chart with the model will enable the reader to name the different features of the moon.

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Transcriber Note

The list of "topographic features" (pp. 11-12) have some numbers missing (115, 116) and a comparison with Nasmyth and Carpenter's The Moon was missing those numbers but several other numbers were repeated. The repeated numbers appear to represent craters too close to split out.