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Galileo's Lunar Landscape
When Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens in late 1609, astronomy was a science filled with diagrams but lacking actual pictures. The moon, for example, often portrayed as a crescent in medieval and Renaissance works of art, was not pictured as it actually appeared to the naked eye. Prevailing astronomical opinion held that the moon was in fact a perfect sphere.
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