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
Tintin on the Moon Tintin on the Moon Tintin on the Moon is a video game loosely based on the "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon" comic books from "The Adventures of Tintin", the series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is a first person shoot 'em up/side scroller and the first "Tintin" video game. This video game was originally made by Infogrames for various home platforms in 1987 and was converted to MS-DOS by Probe Entertainment in 1989. The game's storyline is based loosely on the plot of the "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon" comics from the series. The object of