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The mapping of the Moon, or of any other celestial body, can be defined as a three-dimensional description — not interpretation — of permanent features which are characteristic of its surface. For the Earth, this task has been embarked upon close to the dawn of human civilization. The geographical horizons of our distant ancestors — increasing with the extent of their land — and seafaring — were put in a proper setting by the realization (sometime in the 5–4th centuries B.C.) that the Earth was a sphere, of dimensions which were (at least approximately) ascertained by Eratosthenes some time in the third century before our era.
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Kopal, Z., Carder, R.W. (1974). History of Lunar Mapping: 1600–1960. In: Mapping of the Moon. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2133-3_1
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