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

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

by Christiaan Huygens

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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.

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.

Subjects

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

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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