Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawing

This weekend in 1609, London mathematician Thomas Harriot peered through his new telescope and decided to draw what he saw. The resulting sketch was the first of the moon through a telescope, beating Galileo by about four months. But while Galileo went on about it and got the plaudits, the self-effacing Harriot kept schtum.

Source: The Independent - Science - July 24, 2015 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news