On this night in 1609 - July 26th - the English astronomer and mathematician Thomas Harriot looked at the Moon through a telescope, and left a dated sketch of what he saw.
It's the oldest known drawing of a telescopic body - it was made nearly four months before Galileo's first drawing.
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