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The Story of the Moon

Five drawings of the Moon in ink wash, each half lit, with a ragged line between light and dark.
Galileo's drawings of the Moon, printed in his Starry Messenger in 1610.

Image: Galileo Galilei, drawings of the Moon from Sidereus nuncius (Venice, 1610) · Public domain

A Knaph story

The Story of the Moon

How people learned where moonlight comes from, and what the Moon is made of

c. 700 BCE – today

Borrowed light, a red Moon in the Earth's shadow, mountains seen through a telescope, seas with no water and footprints in the dust: how people slowly came to understand the Moon.

A Knaph story

The Story of the Moon

How people learned where moonlight comes from, and what the Moon is made of

c. 700 BCE – today

Borrowed light, a red Moon in the Earth's shadow, mountains seen through a telescope, seas with no water and footprints in the dust: how people slowly came to understand the Moon.

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