Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14886

    Ring of Saturn

    Date
    9 June 1662
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol1 p73
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 300mm
    width (page): 180mm
    Subject
    Content object
    space
       > Solar system
          > planet
             > Saturn
    Description
    Figure of the ring 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.

    This image is copied from LBO/1/061. The original is at EL/H1/13/006.
    Related fellows
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Europe
          > Netherlands
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