Lunar History
The history of study of the Moon is fascinating and has been featured many time in LPOD, and of course other places too! This page is the beginning of a list of history resources arranged by the name of the person described. Anyone who observes the Moon and has even a small interest about how we learned what we know, and what false steps were taken getting here, must read Epic Moon by Bill Sheehan and Tom Dobbins. It is the only book length history.
Eimmart, Maria Clara (worked 1693-8) Eimmart in Skirts
El Baz, Farouk (worked 1960s-now) Learning to See from Lunar Orbit (astronaut training)
Fauth, Phillip (1867-1941) Massive Map of Little Impact (1964 map)
Franz, Julius (1913) Way Around the Limb (Die Randlandschaften des Mondes - The Marginal Landscapes of the Moon)
Greeley, Ron (worked 1960s-2011) A Planetary Loss (obituary)
Hackman, Robert and Arnold Mason (1960) Early Presents (Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon)
Lecouturier and Chapuis (1881) French Moon
National Geographic Moon Map (1969) The Earth's Moon
Pickering, William Henry (1903) Two Kinds of Joy (The Moon)
Russell, John (1795) A Classic Compared (Russell map and mdern photo)
Schröter, H. Depicting and Understanding (Serpentine Ridge)
US Geologic Survey (1960s-70s) Google Moon (Topo maps on Google Moon)
Apollo and Jules Verne Visionary Dreamers
Apollo 11 Approach Map (1969) Monday Morning Quarterback, 4 Decades Later
British Moon Books The Classics (Elger, Goodacre and Wilkins and Moore)
Chang'e-2 lunar image (2010) Invisible Triumph
2012 (thru June 23) and 2011 LPODs completed so far.
Eimmart, Maria Clara (worked 1693-8) Eimmart in Skirts
El Baz, Farouk (worked 1960s-now) Learning to See from Lunar Orbit (astronaut training)
Fauth, Phillip (1867-1941) Massive Map of Little Impact (1964 map)
Franz, Julius (1913) Way Around the Limb (Die Randlandschaften des Mondes - The Marginal Landscapes of the Moon)
Greeley, Ron (worked 1960s-2011) A Planetary Loss (obituary)
Hackman, Robert and Arnold Mason (1960) Early Presents (Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon)
Lecouturier and Chapuis (1881) French Moon
National Geographic Moon Map (1969) The Earth's Moon
Pickering, William Henry (1903) Two Kinds of Joy (The Moon)
Russell, John (1795) A Classic Compared (Russell map and mdern photo)
Schröter, H. Depicting and Understanding (Serpentine Ridge)
US Geologic Survey (1960s-70s) Google Moon (Topo maps on Google Moon)
Apollo and Jules Verne Visionary Dreamers
Apollo 11 Approach Map (1969) Monday Morning Quarterback, 4 Decades Later
British Moon Books The Classics (Elger, Goodacre and Wilkins and Moore)
Chang'e-2 lunar image (2010) Invisible Triumph
2012 (thru June 23) and 2011 LPODs completed so far.
