Friday Inspiration: Cosmographics (Part 1: the Moon)

{left} Galileo's drawings of the moon from 1610  {right} The Moon published in Galileo's Sidereus nuncius, 1610

Johann Zahn Specula physico-mathematico-historica 1696

{left} An early photograph of the Moon, a daguerreotype taken by John W. Draper, March 26, 1840, in New York. {Right} First published photograph of the moon, 1840