1989 The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and numerous monochrome illustrations from photographs by William B. Ashworth, Jr. Illustration to item 38 from the University of Chicago Press and item 45 curtesy of National Space Science Data Centre. 

In the publisher's original paper covers depicting the Lunar Caucausus Mts.

This volume features an exhibition catalogue of imagery depicting the surface of the moon, and was created by William B. Ashworth. The catalogue won first place at 'The Leab Awards', sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The exhibition and catalogue explores how depictions of the surface of the moon have developed with the invention of higher quality telescopes and technology since the days of Galileo's first observations of the moon.