Harriot- Not Galileo Was the First to Observe the Moon!

Get this bit of trivia..

Galileo was not the first man to view the Moon through a Telescope.  According to the Sussex Record Office, a Thomas Harriot drew images of the Moon several months earlier than what Galileo did.

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Ref.:  National Space Society Blog (March 15, 2009) ( http://blog.nss.org/?p=617).