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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5 total

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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Duration

~2 hours (170K characters)

Publisher of text edition

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

Jul 14, 2023

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 mind of the Scientific Revolution, he helped change how people understood time, light, and the heavens. His work ranges from the pendulum clock to the discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan and a clearer explanation of the planet’s rings.

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