How the Moon began: ideas of lunar reality in antiquity
Epic journeys and flights of fancy: images of the Moon in Plutarch and Lucian
Moon and medieval science: text and images before the twelfth century
Later middle ages: from symbolism to naturalism
First drawings of the lunar surface
British contribution: William Gilbert and Thomas Harriot
Galileo: maps without names
Return to the text: literary explorations of lunar geography
Efforts from France and Belgium: Peiresc-Gassendi and Van Langren
Johannes Hevelius: a Moon of higher origins
Riccioli: the Moon as a conflictual community
Lunar legacy: names and the planets
