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- The celestial worlds discover'd : or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets
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The celestial worlds discover'd : or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets
Chapters
5 totalTO THE READER.
THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.
BOOK the Firſt.
New Conjectures concerning the Planetary Worlds. - BOOK the Second.
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Description
Translation of Kosmotheoros sive De terris coelestibus earumque ornatu conjecturae.
Details
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (170K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United Kingdom: James Knapton, 1722.
Credits
Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2023-07-14
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Christiaan Huygens
1629–1695
A brilliant 17th-century Dutch scientist, he helped change how people understood light, motion, timekeeping, and the heavens. He is especially remembered for improving clocks, developing a wave theory of light, and discovering Saturn’s moon Titan.
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