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Maps of the Moon

Feb 2nd, 2009 by Joshua Scotton

Recent findings show that the credit for being the first man to draw the moon while looking through a telescope doesn’t belong to the Italians but the English. Although Galileo was a pioneer in astronomy, he wasn’t the first to make a map of the moon using a telescope.

Thomas Harriot beat Galileo to that title by a couple of months in July 1609.

Below is his first map on the 26th July 1609, the one at the top of the page is a the complete version.

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