A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 179
highest, so on the moon the more newlyformed craters are generally deeper ami more precipitous than theolder ones. 16(5 THE MOON. 266. Lunar Nomenclature.—The great plains were called byGalileo oceans or seas (Maria), and some of the smaller onesmarshes (Pahides) and hikes, for he supposed that the… … Mm; Fig. 8<j.— Map of the Moon. Mare Fecunditatis, Mare Serenitatis, and Mare Tranquilitatis,are the most conspicuous. There are twelve of them in all, andeight or nine Paludes, Lacus, and Sinus. The ten mountain ranges on the moon are mostly named afterterrestrial mountains, as Caucasus, Alps.…
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