Galileo’s renderings revealed the moon’s shadows as craters, hills and valleys. ... “It’s not that Galileo used drawing just to illustrate the ideas he had already discovered, ...

On this night in 1609, astronomer Galileo Galilei trained his telescope on the Moon for the first time. What he saw would overturn an ancient model of the universe.

Galileo announced his findings in the short pamphlet Starry Messenger published in March of 1610, which contained more than seventy drawings of his Moon observations. The reactions were extreme.

Although Galileo’s moon drawings were not the first to rely on telescope observations — English astronomer Thomas Harriot created the first sketch in 1609 — Galileo’s were the first published.

The image above is the first known drawing of the Moon made using a telescope. It was done by Thomas Harriot in July 1609, many months before Galileo published his own drawings.

Galileo Moon Drawings. If the end of Galileo's life bore the poignant stamp of art, so did its beginning. To this day, on the facade of a Florentine palace, a plaque commissioned by Galileo's disciple ...

The first drawing of the Moon through a telescope, dated July 26, 1609, ... Galileo also discovered four moons around Jupiter and spent much time observing and drawing sunspots.

This line engraving of Galileo depicts the astronomer alongside a drawing that shows Earth’s orbit around the Sun, as well as the Moon’s orbit around Earth. Line engraving by Boutrois ...

His first drawing is dated July 26, 1609. Galileo, it seems, was still struggling to focus. ... The 17th-century drawings that prove a humble Englishman mapped the moon BEFORE Galileo.

400-year-old set of 'moon maps' have led experts to claim that their creator -- Thomas Harriot -- beat Galileo to become the first man to view the moon through a telescope.

Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawing. Harriot's sketch was the first of the moon through a telescope, beating Galileo by about four months ...

Galileo'''s drawings upended the world view that had lasted for at least two millennia. ... After observing the moon, Galileo shifted the telescope and was able to see Jupiter.