Galileo Galilei is often credited with being the first person to look through a telescope and make drawings of the celestial objects he observed. While the Italian indeed was a pioneer in this realm, he was not the first.
Englishman Thomas Harriot made the first drawing of the moon after looking through a telescope several months before Galileo, in July 1609.
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Historian Allan Chapman of the University of Oxford details that 400-year-old breakthrough in astronomy in the February 2009 edition of Astronomy and Geophysics, a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Chapman explains how Harriot preceded Galileo and went on to make other maps of the moon's surface that would not be bettered for decades.
The story
Harriot lived from 1560 to 1621. He studied at St Mary's Hall (now part of Oriel College), Oxford, achieving his BA in 1580.
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090114-first-moon-map.html
В этом году исполняется 400 лет с начала телескопических наблюдений неба.
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