Satellite of Saturn

Date

9 June 1662

After

Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher

Object type

manuscript
drawing

Archive reference number

LBO/1/23

Manuscript page number

p62

Material

ink
paper

Dimensions

height (page): 305mm
width (page): 193mm

Subject

Astronomy

Content object

space
   > Solar system
      > planet
         > Saturn

Description

Figure of the elliptical orbit of the satellite of Saturn which Christian Huygens observed with the astronomer and mathematician Ismaël Bullialdus. In a letter from Huygens to Robert Moray, dated 9 June 1662.

Copied from EL/H1/13/007.

Related fellows

Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher

Associated place

<The World>
> Europe
> Netherlands