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English: Sunset on Clavius. At the bottom of the picture, on the terminator, is the crater Pitatus at the edge of Mare Nubium. South is up. This is one of forty drawings Tobias Mayer made for his map of the Moon.
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Source http://www.lpod.org/?page_id=1593 article by Both about Mayer
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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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