“When a selenographer plots the moon's seas, does he inscribe a memory that can batter as well as renew?”

“Barbicane knew this opinion of the German selenographer, an opinion shared by Ber and Moedler.”

“For many years, accordingly, Schmidt had the field of selenography almost to himself.”

“Langrenus was the first to do serious work on selenography, and named the lunar features after eminent men.”

“The brightest luminaries of earth give names to the dusky spots in the selenography of Helvetius.”

“However, specialised terms such as selenology, areology, etc., are also in use.”

“Data accumulation from the closer celestial bodies resulted in development of parallel branches such as selenology, areology, etc.”