Galileo to Apollo
Depictions of the Lunar Landscape between 1610 - 1978When Galileo announced the existence of mountains, craters, and “seas” on the surface of the moon, his announcement came in the form of a book, the Sidereus Nuncius, or Starry Messenger. It included the first printed telescopic images of the moon. This exhibition explores how the face of the moon has been variously depicted in the years since, from Galileo to the Apollo Program. Enter the exhibition >
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Galileo’s printed observations about the face of the moon in spring of 1610 forever changed our view of the universe. Since antiquity the moon had been considered a "heavenly" object, made of a perfect uniform substance, eternal, immune to change. Galileo saw the moon as a world, made of the same elements as our own planet. He literally brought the heavens down to earth. More >
"I applied myself to explorations of the heavens, and first I looked at the Moon…"Galileo - Sidereus Nuncius,
Van Helden translation
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1610 Galilei, Galileo -
1610 Galilei, Galileo -
1645 Schyrleus de Rheita, Antonius Maria -
1646 Fontana, Francesco -
1611 Hevelius, Johannes -
1672 Divini, Eustachio -
1651 Riccioli, Giovanni Battista -
1665 Hooke, Robert -
1746/1679 Cassini, Giovanni Domenico -
1696 Eimmart, Georg Christoph
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1728 Bianchini, Francesco -
1750 Mayer, Tobias -
1775 Mayer, Tobias -
1791 Schröter, Johann Hieronymus
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1824 Lohrmann, Wilhelm Gotthelf -
1834 Beer, Wilhelm and Mädler, Johann -
1856 Schmidt, Johann Friedrich Julius -
1865 De La Rue, Warren -
1873 Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris -
1874 Nasmyth, James Hall -
1876 Nevill, Edmund Neville -
1878 Schmidt, Johann Friedrich Julius -
1879-1883 Selenographical Journal. -
1881 Mayer, Tobias -
1892 Lohrmann, Wilhelm Gotthelf -
1894 Weinek, Ladislaus -
1896-1897 Lick Observatory -
1896-1897 Observatoire de Paris -
1893-1895 Fauth, Philipp -
1895 Elger, Thomas Gwyn -
1897-1900 Weinek, Ladislaus
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1900 Ritchey, George Willis -
1903 Pickering, William Henry -
1910 Goodacre, Walter -
1912 Krieger, Johann Nepomuk -
1931 Pease, Francis -
1932 Fauth, Philipp -
1960 Kuiper, Gerard Peter, ed. -
1962 Lunar Chart: Mare Humorum -
1966 Jet Propulsion Laboratory -
1966 Ranger IX Lunar Chart: Alphonsus -
1966 Lunar Chart: Arago -
1970 Kosofsky, L.J; and El-Baz, Farouk -
1971 Carr, M.H; Howard, K.A.; El-Baz, Farouk -
1978 Masursky, Harold; Colton, G.W; El-Baz, Farouk ,
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