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1949: RB Baldwin: The Face of the Moon

The most important lunar book since Beer and Mädler in 1837! Baldwin provided the scientific evidence to document that lunar craters were formed by impact of asteroids and comets. He also correctly explained that the mare were lava flows filling giant impact basins.