Riccioli, Giovanni Battista (sold)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli (April 17, 1598 - June 25, 1671) was a Jesuit priest and astronomer active in Italy and Bologna during the early 17th century. Riccioli is most famous as the first person to accurately measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body. However, his most substantial work is the Lunar measurement and mapping that he completed with Francesco Maria Grimaldi. Riccioli and Grimaldi's map of the moon established many of the planetary and lunar mapping conventions that are still in effect today including the nomenclature for most lunar topography. As a Jesuit and in much of his work, most specifically the 1651 Almagestum Novum which was written to that purpose, Riccioli expresses a clear rejection of Copernicus's heliocentric theories. Which makes it all the more curious that he chose to name one of the Moon's most prominent craters after the great Astronomer. Perhaps a tacit sympathy for Copernican theory? Riccioli died in Bologna in 1671.
Describing the moon.
Figura Pro Nomenclatura, Et Libratione Lunari Nec Homines Lunam incolunt. Nec Anime in Lunam migrant.
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An important work in the development of lunar geography (selenography) and astronomy more broadly, this 1665 map of the near side of the moon was drawn by Francesco Maria Grimaldi and appeared in Giovanni Battista Riccioli's work Astronomia Reformata. Building on his paradigm-setting 1651 work Almagestum Novum, Riccioli used the Astronomia Reformata to correct errors, summarize findings, and include updated information. (more details)
The first comparative chart of the Moon.
Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevelii quam Riccioli Curiosis Rei Sidereae Cultoribus exhibetur Joh. Babr. Doppelmajero Math. P.P. upera Joh. Baptistae Homanni Norinbergae.
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A stunning full color example of J. B. Homann and Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr's important c. 1742 map of the Moon. Essentially a comparative chart, Doppelmayer constructed this map to illustrate the lunar mapping of Johannes Hevelius (left) and Giovanni Battista ... (more details)
New lunar naming conventions.
Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevelii quam Riccioli Curiosis Rei Sidereae Cultoribus exhibetur Joh. Babr. Doppelmajero Math. P.P. upera Joh. Baptistae Homanni Norinbergae.
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An example of J. B. Homann and Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr's important 1707/1715 map of the Moon. Essentially a comparative chart, Doppelmayer constructed this map to illustrate the lunar mapping of Johannes Hevelius (left) and Giovanni Battista Riccioli (right). (more details)
The first comparative chart of the Moon from which the names of many lunar features have been derived.
Tabula Selenographica in qua Lunarium Macularum exacta Descriptio secundum Nomenclaturam Praestantissimorum Astronomorum tam Hevelii quam Riccioli Curiosis Rei Sidereae Cultoribus exhibetur Joh. Babr. Doppelmajero Math. P.P. upera Joh. Baptistae Homanni Norinbergae.
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A stunning full color example of J. B. Homann and Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr's important c. 1742 map of the Moon. Essentially a comparative chart, Doppelmayer constructed this map to illustrate the lunar mapping of Johannes Hevelius (left) and Giovanni Battista ... (more details)