Moon the correct values of about 60 and 0.273 respectively. Archimedes (287–212 BC) designed a planetarium that could calculate the motions of the Moon and other objects in the Solar System. During the Middle Ages, before the invention of the telescope, the Moon was increasingly recognised as a sphere, though many believed that it was "perfectly smooth". In 1609, Galileo Galilei drew one of the first telescopic drawings of the Moon in his book and noted that it was not smooth but had mountains and craters. Telescopic mapping of the Moon followed: later in the 17th century, the efforts of Giovanni
Face on Moon South Pole ice in some craters all over the Moon. The craters themselves show a past of being filled with molten lava. Within the Western culture, people have said to have seen “the man in the moon.” Within the East Asian culture, people have seen a rabbit or hands. In addition, various people have seen different imagery such as a tree, a woman, or a toad. When people describe the images they see on the moon, such as a face, they are not directly seeing that image displayed upon the moon. They are rather looking at an irregular section of the Moon’s