The Moon map that made history

— This is a guest post by Meagan Snow, a geospatial data visualization librarian in the Geography and Map Division . It also appears in the May/June issue of the Library of Congress Magazine . For thousands of years, the moon was an object of fascination across time, space and cultures. In 1610, Galileo Galilei first turned it into an object of scientific study, pointing his telescope to the moon…