Copeland, 1953
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Leland S. Copeland: Queen of the Untravelled Seas (1953)
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[#Leland S. Copeland: Queen of the Untravelled Seas (1953)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Leland S. Copeland: Queen of the Untravelled Seas (1953)-Bibliography Bibliography]
Description
This article is primarily a somewhat fanciful tour of the [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium] region conducted by a (it is assumed amateur) lunar observer. The author expresses the view, popular in that day, that impact craters on the Moon would likely be less than a mile in diameter, so that the larger features were most likely the result of vulcanism. In addition to two normal-sized photos and a two-page fold-out, the article is illustrated by [/Russell John Russell]'s portrait of the "Moon Maiden" [/Promontorium%20Heraclides Promontorium Heraclides] as an angel, complete with wings; [/Nasmyth John Nasmyth]'s drawing of [/Mons%20Pico Mons Pico] as a small, but very steep, multi-spired peak; and the author's own small, but careful, map of [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium] with a number of "new" underlined names added to the standard [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature]. The underlined names serve as stops on the tour, and having caught the eye of Danny Caes have been added to the appropriate the-Moon Wiki pages.
Additional Information
- The names that have caught Danny's attention are underlined on Copeland's chart, and, as noted in the caption the underscoring means those names are "peculiar to this discussion" -- that is they are meaningful only in the context of the article, and probably not otherwise known. The author chose them as a way of "suggesting the appearance of the formations so named". - JimMosher JimMosher
- In Seeing in the Dark, Timothy Ferris describes Copeland as "an assiduous amateur deep-sky observer prominent in the first half of the twentieth century". He is possibly the same Leland S. Copeland who, between 1926 and 1928, contributed a number of stories to Hugo [/Gernsback Gernsback]'s fantasy/science fiction journal Amazing Stories.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- Copeland, Leland S. 1953. Queen of the Untraveled Seas. Sky and Telescope, volume 12, pages 66-69.
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