Part-time astronomer Christopher Wren made a model of this with surface relief & gave it to Charles II
... As first Gresham and then Savillian Professor of Astronomy, he developed a ... 
1661 Wren gave his model of the moon, with surface features in relief, to Charles, 
... to reckon time, longitude, and distance made good at sea, fortification of ports,
... [DOC] [TLE] Christopher Wren: Astronomy, Architecture, and the Mathematical ... [PAR] JHA vi (1975), 149184 CHRISTOPHER WREN: ASTRONOMY, ... During that 
time a vigorous tradition in the new astronomy was established in England.