Maps of the Moon. Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age, by Thomas Haddad

• Joshua Nall ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Cambridge

     University of Cambridge

     Cambridge District, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 37, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 234-236
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Thomas Haddad, Maps of the Moon. Lunar Cartography from the Seventeenth Century to the Space Age. (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences) Brill: Leiden, 2019. Paperback | 98 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-40088-7.

    This is no ordinary book. Thomás Haddad has produced a wonderful work of scholarship that is at once a compelling essay and, perhaps, a harbinger of academic media in the 21st-century. By this I mean that it does not conform to the stereotype of an academic book, and on these grounds it invites a review at two levels: of its scholarship and of ...