Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The First Modern Planet
2. How the Moon Began: Ideas of Lunar Reality in Antiquity
3. Epic Journeys and Flights of Fancy: Images of the Moon in Plutarch and Lucian
4. The Moon and Medieval Science: Text and Images before the Twelfth Century
5. The Later Middle Ages: From Symbolism to Naturalism
6. The First Drawings of the Lunar Surface
7. The British Contribution: William Gilbert and Thomas Harriot
8. Galileo: Maps without Names
9. Return of the Text: Literary Explorations of Lunar Geography
10. Efforts from France and Belgium: Peiresc-Gassendi and Van Langren
11. Johannes Hevelius: A Moon of Higher Origins
12. Riccioli: The Moon as a Conflictual Community
13. A Lunar Legacy: Names and the Planets
14. The Lunar Cycle
Notes
Bibliography
Index