Talk:Lunar north pole

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Created talk page for the Lunar north pole article - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 20:02, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

History of lunar science: Was there a southern hemisphere preference?
I've been systematically browsing through dozens of vintage astronomy texts, and I've notice a couple images of the moon from the 1800s that show the lunar north pole at the bottom of the page (rather than at the top, as is our convention in Earth's northern hemisphere). In those instances, it is depicted the way it would appear to an observer in Earth's southern hemisphere. Does anyone know if there had been an early preference for that perspective? Here's an example, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1897_photograph_of_moon.jpg on pg 16 of an 1897 text, A New Astronomy. This isn't the best example, because it's a photo of only a partial section of the moon, but the edge of the moon near the top of the image/page is actually a portion of the moon that's near its south pole. If I come across other examples I've seen (I didn't mark them as I cam across them), I'll post the links here. Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host (talk) 23:13, 24 December 2018 (UTC)