Sun, Moon & Planets
Galileo's Moon
The drawings that ended a perfect heaven.
- Chart
- Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger)
- Astronomer
- Galileo Galilei
- Date
- 1610
- Held by
- Published Venice · Linda Hall Library
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
When Galileo turned his new telescope on the Moon in 1609 and drew what he saw, he shattered two thousand years of belief. Here was no perfect, polished celestial sphere, but a world like our own — pitted with craters, ridged with mountains that cast long shadows at the terminator. His modest ink-wash drawings, published in the Starry Messenger, are among the most consequential images ever made: the moment the heavens became a place, and the modern universe began.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Galileo's Moon printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Published Venice · Linda Hall Library — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.
