Excerpt:
We have prepared an online version of an exhibition catalog that was originally published in 1989. The catalog was written by William B. Ashworth, Jr and it won the First Place Award in the annual competition sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Copies of the printed catalog are still available
Annotation:
This site shows how the face of the moon has been imagined and described as telescopes were improved, new inventions such as photography were applied, and as space travel led humankind to the surface of the moon. The site includes 45 sketches and photographs of the moon taken between 1610 and 1978. Each image has accompanying text describing the image and the context in which it was made. Historians of astronomy will find this site valuable.