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Lunar drawings before the telescope
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This page has links to several pre-telescopic drawings of the Moon made by Leonardo
da Vinci and William Gilbert in the fourth paragraph:

http://physics.ship.edu/~mrc/pfs/110/inside_out/vu1/Galileo/Things/moon.html

And then there is this very interesting and really ancient drawing that some think could
be the earliest "map" of the Moon ever made:

http://publish.uwo.ca/~pjstooke/knowth.htm

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