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<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
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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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[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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Revision as of 14:38, 18 January 2015

Hooke & Hipparchus

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Hooke & Hipparchus

The earliest drawings of the Moon were of the ["LPOD-2004-01-01.htm" entire body]

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