Transcription: they rise to 2 or 3 thousand meters. The only thing missing is the surface of the sea. However, most of the lunar names in use today are due to an Italian Jesuit, Giovanni Rigioli, who drew another map of the Moon in 1651, only four years after Herveilius. Rigioli was well educated and far from dull. He was a poet and chose poetic names for the lunar names. features. Of course, Riccioli used Latin, but we can easily appreciate his poetry in English. Other names chosen by Riccioli were those of distinct scholars, mainly those from ancient times such as Ptolemy, Pliny, Plutarch, Euclid and Thale ...
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