Lunar features

Lunar features named after mathematicians

About 300 mathematicians have lunar features (mostly craters) named after them.
You can see an account of how these features were named and whom they were called after.
Be warned that the list of lunar crater names is large (about 600K).

You can see the features by clicking on the (*) next to a name. This will take you to the US Naval Research Laboratory Website allowing you to access images taken from the Clementine satellite.

Click on the name to go to the biography

CATENAS

(*) Catena Gregory (James)

(*) Catena Sylvester



CRATERS

A
(*) Abbe
(*) Abel
(*)Abenezra (A ben Ezra)
(*) Abul Wafa
(*) Adams
(*) Airy
(*) Albategnius
(*) Al-Biruni
(*) Alhazen
(*) Al-Khwarizmi
(*) Anaxagoras
(*) Apollonius
(*) Arago
(*) Archimedes
(*) Archytas
(*) Aristarchus
(*) Aristoteles
(*) Aryabhata
(*) Atwood
(*) Avicenna

B
(*) Babbage
(*) Bacon
(*) Balmer
(*) Barocius
(*) Barrow
(*) Bernoulli (Jacob) and (Johann)
(*) Bessel
(*) Billy
(*) Biot
(*) Birkhoff
(*) Bjerknes (Vilhelm)
(*) Bobillier
(*) Boethius
(*) Bohr (Niels)
(*) Boltzmann
(*) Bolyai
(*) Bombelli
(*) Boole
(*) Borda
(*) Borel
(*) Born
(*) Bouguer
(*) Bowditch
(*) Boyle
(*) Brianchon
(*) Briggs
(*) Brouwer
(*) Brown
(*) Buffon

C

(*) Cajori
(*) Calippus
(*) Campanus
(*) Cantor
(*) Cardanus
(*) Carnot
(*) Cartan
(*) Cassini
(*) Cauchy
(*) Cavalerius
(*) Cayley
(*) Chaplygin
(*) Chapman
(*) Chebyshev
(*) Clairaut
(*) Clausius
(*) Clavius
(*) Condorcet
(*) Conon
(*) Copernicus
(*) Coriolis
(*) Coulomb
(*) Cremona
D

(*) da Vinci
(*) DAlembert
(*) De Morgan
(*) de Sitter
(*) Delambre
(*) Delaunay
(*) Democritus
(*) Desargues
(*) Descartes
(*) Diophantus
(*) Dirichlet
(*) Doppelmayer
(*) Doppler


E

(*) Eckert_Wallace>Eckert (Wallace)
(*) Eddington
(*) Einstein
(*) Eotvos
(*) Eratosthenes
(*) Esclangon
(*) Euclides
(*) Eudoxus
(*) Euler

F

(*) Fermat
(*) Fitzgerald
(*) Flamsteed
(*) Fourier
(*) Fredholm

G

(*) Galilaei
(*) Galois
(*) Gassendi
(*) Gauss
(*) Geminus
(*) Gemma Frisius
(*) Gibbs
(*) Green
(*) Gregory

H

(*) Halley
(*) Hamilton
(*) Harriot
(*) Heaviside
(*) Herigone
(*) Hermann
(*) Hermite
(*) Herschel
(*) C. Herschel
(*) J. Herschel
(*) Hilbert
(*) Hill
(*) Hipparchus
(*) Hooke
(*) Hubble
(*) Hypatia

J

(*) Jacobi
(*) Jeans

K

(*) Kastner
(*) Kepler
(*) Kirchhoff
(*) Kovalevskaya
(*) Krylov (Aleksei)
(*) Qin Jiushao


L

(*) La Condamine
(*) Lacroix
(*) Lagrange
(*) Lamb
(*) Lambert
(*) Lame
(*) Landau (Lev)
(*)Larmor
(*) Le Verrier
(*) Lebesgue
(*) Legendre
(*) Leibnitz
(*) Leucippus
(*) Levi-Civita
(*) Lexell
(*) Liouville
(*) Lobachevsky
(*) Lorentz
(*)Love
(*) Lyapunov
M

(*) MacLaurin
(*) Markov
(*) Maskelyne
(*) Maupertuis
(*) Maurolycus
(*) Maxwell
(*) C. Mayer
(*) T. Mayer
(*) Menelaus
(*) Mercator (Gerard)
(*) Mersenius
(*) Meshcherskiy
(*) Miller
(*) Milne
(*) Mineur
(*) Minkowski
(*) Mobius
(*) Monge

N

(*)Neper (Napier)
(*) Newcomb
(*) Newton
(*)Noether (Emmy)


O

(*) Ohm
(*) Omar Khayyam
(*) Oresme

P

(*) Pascal
(*) Pauli
(*) Peirce (Benjamin)
(*) Petit
(*) Petzval
(*) Picard (Jean)
(*) Pitiscus
(*) Plana
(*) Planck
(*) Plato
(*) Playfair
(*) Poincare
(*) Poinsot
(*) Poisson
(*) Poncelet
(*) Proclus
(*) Ptolemaeus
(*) Puiseux
(*) Pythagoras


Q

(*) Quetelet

R

(*) Rabbi Levi
(*) Ramsden
(*) Rankine
(*) Rayleigh
(*) Regiomontanus
(*) Reiner
(*) Rhaeticus
(*) Riccius (Matteo)
(*) Riemann
(*) Runge
(*) Rydberg

S

(*) Sacrobosco
(*) Schrodinger
(*) Schroter
(*) Schwarzschild
(*) Segner
(*) Seidel
(*) Sierpinski
(*) Snellius
(*) Somerville
(*) Sommerfeld
(*) Stefan (Josef)
(*) Steklov
(*) Stevinus
(*) Stokes
(*) Sylvester

T

(*) Tacquet
(*) Talbot
(*) Taylor
(*) Thales
(*) Theaetetus
(*) Thebit
(*) Theon Junior
(*) Theon Senior
(*) Thomson
(*) Tisserand
(*) Torricelli
(*) Zu Chongzhi

U
(*) Ulugh Beigh

V
(*)Van Vleck
(*) Vega
(*) Vieta
(*) Viviani
(*) Vlacq
(*) Volterra
(*) Von Neumann

W
(*) Weber
(*) Weierstrass
(*) Weyl
(*)Wiener (Norbert)

FOSSA

(*)Fossa Cauchy


MONS

(*) Mons Ampere
(*) Montes Archimedes

(*) Mons Huygens
(*) Mons La Hire

(*) Mons Euler
(now Mons Vinogradov)
PROMONTORIA

(*) Promontorium Fresnel

(*) Promontorium Kelvin

(*) Promontorium Laplace
RIMAE

(*) Rimae Apollonius
(*) Rimae Archimedes
(*) Rima Archytas
(*) Rimae Aristarchus
(*) Rima Billy
(*) Rimae Boscovich
(*) Rimae Burg
(*) Rima Calippus
(*) Rima Cardanus
(*) Rima Cauchy

(*) Rima Conon
(*) Rima Diophantus
(*) Rimae Doppelmayer
(*) Rima Euler
(*) Rimae Fresnel
(*) Rima Galilaei
(*) Rimae Gassendi
(*) Rima Hadley
(*) Rimae Herigonius

(*) Rimae Hypatia
(*) Rimae Maupertuis
(*) Rima T. Mayer
(*) Rimae Menelaus
(*) Rimae Mersenius
(*) Rimae Plato
(*) Rimae Ramsden
(*) Rima Rudolf
RUPES

(*) Rupes Cauchy

(*) Rupes Kelvin

(*) Rupes Mercator (Gerard)
VALLES

(*) Vallis Bohr (Niels)
(*) Vallis Planck

(*) Vallis Schrodinger

(*) Vallis Snellius
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