* Astronomy

Thomas Harriot (Oxford, ca. 1560 - London, 2 July 1621) - or spelled Harriott, Hariot, or Heriot - was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of the potato to the British Isles. Harriot was the first person to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope, on July 26, 1609, over four months before Galileo. 
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