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Not exactly something for astrophotographers, but... perhaps interesting for photographers of the moon's surface. Here's an unusual alphabetic list of officially accepted names of lunar craters and mountains. As you know, almost every name on the moon has a "Latin" touch to let it sound "difficult" or "scientific". Here, in this list, you see the names of astronomers and scientists and how they really should have been added in the charts of lunar atlases and globes. In other words: Earth's moon for all of us (people). The spark that started my exploration to detect these odd Latinized names, and to create an alphabetic list of them was the book Who's Who on the Moon, a biographical dictionary of lunar nomenclature, by twin brothers Elijah E. Cocks and Josiah C. Cocks (Tudor Publishers, Inc., Greensboro, 1995). A Abenezra: Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra Abulfeda: Abu-al-Fida' Isma il ibn Ali'imad-al-Din Abul Wafa: Abu'l al-Wafa al Buzjani / al-Hasib Agricola (of Montes Agricola, and also of craterlet Agricola at the site of Apollo 17): Georg Bauer (German for: George Farmer, George Peasant, George Countryman, George Rustic). Agrippa: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, or... was Agrippa an (almost unknown) ancient Greek astronomer? - Agrippa was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa: Roman general, statesman and architect. Albategnius: Muhammed Ben Geber Al-Batani Alfraganus: Muhammed Ebn Ketir Al Fragani Alhazen: Abu Ali Al-Hasen Ibn Al Haitham Aliacensis: Pierre D'Ailly Almanon: Abdalla Al-Mamun. Wikipedia: Abū Jaʿfar Abdullāh al-Maʾmūn ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd Al-Marrakushi: Ibn Al-Banna Al-Marrakushi / Abul-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Uthman Al-Azdi Alpetragius: Abu Ishaq Al-Bitruji Al-Ishbili Alphonsus: Alfonso X Al-Tusi (see Nasireddin) (both craters are named after one and the same person) Ansgarius: Saint Ansgar / Anskar Apianus: Peter Bienwitz Apiani Arzachel: Al Zarkala / Al Zarqali Avicenna: Abu Ali Ibn Sina Azophi: Abderrahman Al-Sufi / Abd al-Rahman, Umar al-Sufi B Barocius: Francesco Barozzi Bettinus: Mario Bettini Blancanus: Giuseppe Biancani Blanchinus: Giovanni Bianchini Brenner: Spiridon Gopcevic (his pseudonym was Leo Brenner) Bullialdus: Ismael Boulliaud Byrgius: Joost Burgi C Cabeus: Niccolo Cabeo Capuanus: Francesco Giovanni Battista Capuano di Manfredonia Cardanus: Girolamo (or Geronimo) Cardano Casatus: Paolo Casati Cavalerius: Buonaventura Cavalieri Cichus: Francesco Degli Stabili (Cecco d'Ascoli) Clavius: Christopher Klau Columbo: Christopher Columbus Curtius: Albert Curtz Cusanus: Nikolaus von Cusa Cyrillus: Saint Cyril Cysatus: Jean-Baptiste Cysat D E F Fabricius: David Faber or David Goldschmidt (both names are not mentioned in the book Who's Who on the Moon by Elijah and Josiah Cocks) Fernelius: Jean Fernel Fracastorius: Girolamo Fracastoro Furnerius: Georges Fournier G Gauricus: Luca Gaurico Geber: Jabir Ibn Aflah Al-Ishbili, Abu Muhammad. Not to be confused with Jabir ibn Hayyan (also known as Geber). ibn Hayyan was the LTO-name for Zwicky N on the moon's farside. See also the Pseudo-Geber problem. Gemma Frisius: Jemme Reinerszoon (not mentioned in the book Who's Who on the Moon by Elijah and Josiah Cocks) Goclenius: Rudolf Gockel H Hagecius: Thaddaeus Hayek/ Hagek Herigonius: Pierre Herigone Hevelius: Johann Hewelcke Hortensius: Maarten van den Hove I Ibn-Rushd (also known as Averroes) Isidorus: Saint Isidore of Seville J K Kidinnu: Cidenas L Langrenus: Michel Florent van Langren Lansberg: Philippe van Lansbergen Licetus: Fortunio Liceto Lilius: Luigi Giglio/ Aloysius Lilio Longomontanus: Christian Severin M Magelhaens: Ferdinand Magellan Maginus: Giovanni Antonio Magini Manzinus: Carlo Antonio Mancini Marius: Simon Mayer Maurolycus: Francesco Maurolico Mercator: Gerard de Kremer (or Gerard de Kremer van Rupelmonde) Mersenius: Marin Mersenne Messala: Masha'allah Metius: Adriaan Adriaanszoon Milichius: Jacob Milich Mutus: Vincente Mut/ Muth N Nasireddin: Nasir-Al-Din, Mohammed Ibn Hassan. From Wikipedia: Khawaja Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī (which means that the nearside crater known as Nasireddin is named after the same person of the farside crater Al-Tusi, officially known as King Y). Nearch: Nearkhos of Crete Nonius: Pedro Nunez O Oken: Lorenz Okenfuss Omar Khayyam: Ghiyathuddin Afbifath Omar Al Khayyami Orontius: Oronce Fine P Paracelsus: Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Peirescius: Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc Petavius: Denis Petau Phocylides: Jan Fokkesz/ Jan Fokker/ Johann Holwarda/ Johannes Fokkes Holwarda/ Jan Fokkens Holwarda/ Jan Fokkes van haylen (why was he also known as Phocylides?) - Phocylides was a Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, born about 560 BC - Phocylides seems to be some kind of beetle too, see Wikipedia Pitatus: Pietro Pitati Pontanus: Giovanni Gioviani Pontano Q R Rabbi Levi: Levi Ben Gershon Regiomontanus ("King's mountain"): Johann Muller Reimarus: Nicolai Reymers Baer Reiner: Vincenzo Reinieri Rhaeticus: Georg Joachim de Porris/ Georg Joachim von Lauchen/ Georg Joachim von Iserin Riccius: Matteo Ricci S Sacrobosco: John of Holywood Sasserides: Gellio Sasceride Shirakatsi: Anania Shiracunensis ("The calculator"). Seems to be an Armenian name. I thought it was Japanese. Simpelius: Hugh Sempill Sirsalis: Girolamo Sersale Snellius: Willebrord van Royen Snell Stadius: Jan Stade Steno: Niels Stensen Stiborius: Andreas Stoberl T Tannerus: Adam Tanner Thebit: Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Sabi al-Harrani Theon Junior: Theon of Alexandria Theon Senior: Theon of Smyrna U V Vendelinus: Gottfried Wendelin Vesalius: Andries van Wesele (not mentioned in the book Who's Who on the Moon by Elijah and Josiah Cocks) Vitello: Erazmus Ciokek Witelo W Wilhelm: Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse Wurzelbauer: Johann Philipp von Wurzelbau X Y Z Zagut: Abraham Ben Samuel Zaguth Zucchius: Niccolo Zucchi Zupus: Giovanni Battista Zupi |
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To Spacetime Pictures, To get to know much more oddities, you really should read E. A. Whitaker's book Mapping and Naming the Moon, a history of lunar cartography and nomenclature (Cambridge University Press, 1999). In it, one could see that, for example, Madler's Mare Humboldtianum was also Van Langren's "Pappi", Hewelcke's "Palus Amadoca", and Riccioli's "Zoroaster". |
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Now, who was the REAL Phocylides? On the moon, Phocylides is (or: was) the Frisian astronomer/physician/philosopher Jan Fokkesz, or... Jan Fokker, or... Johann Holwarda, or... Johannes Fokkes Holwarda, or... Jan Fokkens Holwarda, or... Jan Fokkes van haylen. But... why was he, a Frisian, also known as Phocylides ??? According to Wikipedia, Phocylides was a Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, born about 560 BC. Agrippa is also of the same branch (Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim). And who was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa? Danny Caesius (Caes sounds a bit too "lower class") |
