Famous Montois: Malapert's moon / Thomas Istasse - Arts²

Rue Malapert - 7000 Mons

The project, called ‘Montois Célèbres’ (Famous Montois), was created by students in the Arts2 drawing workshop, who each chose a Montois personality to work on: Roland de Lassus, Charles Malapert, Marguerite de Constantinople, Salvatore Adamo and Marouane Fellaini. A list of 20 names that will be revealed as we go along...

Today, the name Malapert refers to three things. First and foremost, it refers to the Montagne researcher and mathematician Charles Malapert, who, like Galileo at the same time, scanned and studied the sky. It was in his honour that two places were named after him, the first at this crossroads, a modest tribute to this astronomer. The second is a crater at the South Pole of the Moon, topped by a mountain. So it is upside down and covered in a jet of gold, as if constantly bathed in sunlight, that this crater and this mountain illuminate us in return.

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