No Lunar Eclipse There

Recently, it has been discovered that Italian Galileo Galilei was not the first who observed the Moon through a telescope. Englishman Thomas Harriot did it earlier, and has left maps of the Moon of a slightly earlier date that proves this. However, Thomas Harriot was never keen on publishing his findings, as Galileo Galilei was. There was no lunar eclipse in the way of these observations, and centuries until Lunar Eclips - yours truly - would be born. It is interesting to know that more than Galileo Galilei was interested in Luna at such an early time in the history of modern astronomy.