He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels. Nicolas Camille Flammarion (1842 - 1925) was a French astronomer and author. The original image measured 64 centimeters in diameter. On February 1, 1888, Bertaux presented the Gaudibert's map, drawn by Fenet and reproduced by heliography to the Royal Academy. Emile Bertaux subsequently produced a globe of the moon based on Gaudibert's lunar map. Gaudibert produced a map of the Moon in 1887 and later, under the direction of Camille Flammarion. The map is based upon the work of Casimir Marie Gaudibert (1823 – 1901), a French amateur astronomer and selenographer. Gaudibert's map introduced six crater names later adopted into the International Astronomical Union's original lunar nomenclature in 1935.

The work is the collaboration of French Astronomer Casimir Marie Gaudibert, French astronomer, author and scientific popularizer Camille Flammarion, publisher Emile Bertaux and artist Leon Fenet. Published on two sheets, the second sheet is a transparency, which is laid over the first sheet, adding place names and outlines of the topographical features of the moon illustrated on the first sheet. African Islands, including Madagascar (66)Įducational Version of Gaudibert's Map of the Moon Presented To The Astronomical Society of France in February 1888įine togographically projected map of the moon, drawn by Leon Fenet, produced at the end of the 19th Century in Paris, published by Emile Bertaux.

Lunark map