1775. Tobias Mayer’s map, the father of modern selenography

Tobias Mayer (1723-1762), a mathematician, astronomer and German cartographer, undertakes lunar cartography with a new precision, by using a micrometer integrated in the telescope. Mayer’s observations begins in 1748 for the creation of a map and a world map. The map only is published in 1775. Oriented to the south, as it is observed through naked eye, the map ceases with the former representations that has previously been used: upper south orientated (image reversed, the consequence of observation through a lens). It is the first map of the Moon that contains longitudes and latitudes.