The first recorded observation of the moons surface in 1609
On the evening of July 26th 1609 the Englishman Thomas Harriot made a sketch of the surface of the moon as he had observed it through a telescope. This was four months before Galileo did the same.
Copyright Lord Egremont,
Petworth House Archives HMC 241/9 fol 26. West Sussex Record Office, Chichester
