Johannis Hevelii Selenographia, sive, Lunae descriptio : atque accurata, tam macularum ejus, quam motuum diversorum, aliarumque omnium vicissitudinum, phasiumque, telescopii ope deprehensarum, delineatio in quâ simul caeterorum omnium planetarum nativa facies, variaeque observationes, praesertim autem macularum solarium, atque jovialium, tubospicillo acquisitae, figuris accuratissimè aeri incisis, sub aspectum ponuntur : nec non quamplurimae astronomicae, opticae, physicaeque quaestiones proponuntur atque resolvuntur : addita est, lentes expoliendi nova ratio : ut et telescopia diversa construendi, et experiendi, horumq; adminiculo, varias observationes coelestes, inprimis quidem eclipsium, cùm solarium, tum lunarium, exquisitè instituendi, itemq diametros stellarum veras, viâ infallibili, determinandi methodus : eoq; quicquid praeterea circa ejusmodi observationes animadverti debet, perspicuè explicatur. --
Johannes Hevelius's Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio, published by the author at Danzig (Gdańsk) in 1647, is a learned astronomy treatise on the Moon, written for scholars and observers. Its plates are hand-engraved maps of lunar phases and craters, plus diagrams of observational geometry, and a designer could take their precise, minimal line work and the cratered, shadowed textures of the lunar surface as reference.
