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| | <p class="story" align="center"><b>Hooke & Hipparchus</b></p> | | <p class="story" align="center"><b>Hooke & Hipparchus</b></p> |
| − | <p class="story" align="left">The earliest drawings of the Moon were of the ["LPOD-2004-01-01.htm" entire body]. By 1665 Robert Hooke, the | + | <p class="story" align="left">The earliest drawings of the Moon were of the ["LPOD-2004-01-01.htm" entire body]</p></div></td> |
| − | English rival of Isaac Newton, published (in his Micrographia) the first drawing of a single feature, and it was
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| − | remarkably accurate. The comparison of Hooke's drawing of the 150 km wide crater Hipparchus with a modern photo taken
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| − | with a 61" telescope (Consolidated Lunar Atlas sheet E10) shows that Hooke correctly drew many details including two
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| − | mountainous ridges at the bottom left. Hooke also shows a shadowed arc on the left side of Hipparchus that represents
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| − | part of a ghost crater and various small hills. Hooke make this drawing with a 30 ft focal length telescope but he never
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| − | gave the diameter of its lens. He was a very keen-sighted observer, discovering that Jupiter rotates and discovering
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| − | Syrtis Major on Mars. Hooke was one of the most versatile scientists of the 17th century - I eagerly await the new
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| − | biography of him by the wonderful author Lisa Jardine.
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| − | <p class="story"><b>Related Links:</b><br>
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| − | [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/cla/info/e10/ Consolidated Lunar Atlas image]<br>
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| − | <i>Ingenious Pursuits</i> by Lisa Jardine, p 63-65, Doubleday, New York, 1999.<br>
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| − | [http://www.roberthooke.org.uk/leonardo.htm England's Leonardo - Robert Hooke]</p>
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