Imagine being Thomas Harriot or Galileo Galilei looking through a telescope, seeing the contours of all those craters, and blowing up the idea that the moon was a perfect sphere. (Photo: this morning's gibbous moon.)

Read this for the nuances of discovery and attribution: https://www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/modeling-the-cosmos/galileo-and-the-telescope/
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