Eyes on the skies / From silver to silicon
400 years ago, when Galileo Galilei wanted to show others what he saw through his telescope, he had to make drawings. The pockmarked face of the Moon, the dance of the Jovian satellites, sunspots or the stars in Orion. He took his drawings and published them in a small book, The Starry Messenger. That was the only way he could share his discoveries with others. For well over two centuries, astronomers also had to be artists. Peering through their eyepieces, they made detailed drawings of what they saw. And sometimes they over-interpreted what they saw. Dark linear features on the surface of Mars were thought to be canals suggesting…
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