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

Huygens, Constantijn, 1628-1697 · 1722 · London : Printed for James Knapton · 1 picture

An English translation of Christiaan Huygens's Cosmotheoros, speculating on inhabitants, plants and cosmology of the planets, printed in London by James Knapton in 1722 for educated general readers. The plate work is austere line engraving: a circle bisected by a vertical axis with lettered points A through E, plate number in the corner, wide blank margins and visible paper tone.

Plurality of worlds · Life on other planets · Cosmology

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