Lunar - A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps + Matter Tara Wigley Sita Dickson Littlewood

Sita Dickson Littlewood

To achieve this end

Elizabeth Kolbert

days spent in total darkness

Revisiting it brings a deep insight into what it means to be human at a time when the boundaries between man and machine are blurring

Lunar - A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps + Matter Tara Wigley Sita Dickson LittlewoodA beautiful showcase of hand drawn geological charts of the Moon, combined with a retelling of the symbolic and mythical associations of Earths satellite. On 25 May 1961 President Kennedy set Project Apollo in motion with his address to the US Congress setting out his plan, and scientists at the US Geological Survey embarked on the geological mapping of the Moon. Over the next 11 years, a team of 22 scientists and illustrator cartographers created 44