The celestial worlds discover'd : or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets

by Christiaan Huygens

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TO THE READER.

1:26

THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.

1:21

BOOK the Firſt.

1:46:28

New Conjectures concerning the Planetary Worlds. - BOOK the Second.

1:06:37

Colophon - Availability

1:26

Description

Translation of Kosmotheoros sive De terris coelestibus earumque ornatu conjecturae.

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Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: James Knapton, 1722.

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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.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71191

Subjects

Cosmology -- Early works to 1800 Plurality of worlds -- Early works to 1800 Life on other planets -- Early works to 1800 QB

About the author

Christiaan Huygens

1629–1695

A brilliant figure of the Scientific Revolution, he helped explain Saturn’s rings, discovered its moon Titan, and transformed timekeeping with the pendulum clock. His work also shaped early ideas in optics, probability, and mechanics.

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