Francesco Fontana

Francesco Fontana

Francesco Fontana (1580 – c. 1656) was an Italian lawyer and astronomer.

He created woodcuts showing the Moon and the planets as he saw them through a self-constructed telescope. In 1646 he published most of them in the book "Novae coelestium terrestriumq [ue] rerum observationes, et fortasse hactenus non vulgatae."In 1645, he claimed to have observed a satellite of Venus (Paul Stroobant demonstrated in 1887 that all similar observations were not related to a putative satellite of Venus).

A crater on Mars and on the Moon was named in his honor.

Note: See Donato Creti for paintings of planets from the next century.


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