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Print (Engraving, Etching) Réduction de la grande Carte de la Lune de J. Dom. Cassini, French, 18th Century

Inventory Number 13579


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.13579

Item type
Object
Primary inscriptions
Ink annotation: Mr HOrnsby [Hornsby?] Possibly Thomas Hornsby (1763–1810), Savilian Professor of Astronomy, who had an observatory at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Physical material
Paper
Physical technique
Engraving
Etching
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 283mm Width: 429mm
Inventory No
13579

Description

Réduction de la grande Carte de la Lune. [Original by Giovanni Domenico Cassini, engraved by Claude Mellan, in Paris 1679.]