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News from the New World Discovered in the Moon
''News from the New World Discovered in the Moon'' was a Jacobean era masque, written by Ben Jonson; it was first performed before King James I on 7 January 1620, with a second performance on 29 February the same year.〔The dates of the masque were disputed for some time, and confused with the performances of another masque; Logan and Smith, p. 87.〕 Jonson's text comments on significant recent developments in astronomy and journalism. The text of the masque was first published in the second folio collection of Jonson's works in 1641.
==Astronomy==
The masque refers to the discoveries of features on the Moon made by contemporaneous astronomers — Galileo Galilei most famous among them — using the earliest telescopes.〔Jonson was writing even before the term "telescope" had come into use in English; he calls the instrument a "trunk," or tube. Similarly, Thomas Tomkis calls the telescope a "perspicill" in his 1615 play ''Albumazar''.〕 Their observations of mountain ranges and other geographic and geological features on the Moon's surface was interpreted as equivalent to the discovery of a "new world" — as in two later works by John Wilkins, ''The Discovery of a World in the Moon'' (1638) and ''A Discourse Concerning a New Planet'' (1640).
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