Friday, January 16, 2009

Galileo Galilei or Thomas Harriot?

A new article in the February edition of 'Astronomy and Geophysics', the journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), explains how British astronomer Thomas Harriot made the first drawing of the Moon through a telescope in July 1609, several months before Galileo.

* video Italian and English
* article [Ansa]: Paolo Galluzzi's opinion

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