The only significant map of the Moon made before the invention of the telescope, drawn by William Gilbert (1540-1603), physician to Queen Elizabeth I and the discoverer of terrestrial magnetism. Gilbert drew the Moon with continents, floating islands and an ocean. He named the continents the great continents of the east, west and centre. This map was published in his book New philosophy, about our world beneath the Moon in 1651. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Zentralbibliothek Zurich |
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