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English: Sunset on Clavius. South is up, but the image is left-right mirrored, compared to the usual orientation of telescopic maps of the Moon. This is a stylized version of File:Tobiasmayer-moondrawing-1748-07-19.png. It was used to promote a moonglobe that was to be made from Tobias Mayer's drawings. The moonglobe project was later abandoned by the publisher.
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Source http://home/pim/www.lhl.lib.mo.us/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/moon/p12.htm
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Tobias Mayer  (1723–1762)  wikidata:Q60406 s:en:Author:Tobias Mayer
 
Tobias Mayer
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Johann Tobias Mayer, Tobias Majer
Description astronomer, cartographer and mathematician
Date of birth/death 17 February 1723 Edit this at Wikidata 20 February 1762 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Marbach am Neckar Göttingen
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creator QS:P170,Q60406
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