Diagram of Saturn
Date
17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p5
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 183mm
width (page): 163mm
width (page): 163mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The image comes with three pages of commentary on Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra (1681). The text mentions that 'Mons Huygens in his systema Saturnium page 47 gives us the true figure of this Planet which I have here coppied from him'. This drawing is a copy from Christian Huygens, Systema Saturnium (The Hague: A. Vlach, 1659), p. 47.
Transcription
Mons. Huygens in his systema Saturnium page 47 gives us the true figure of this Planet which I have here coppied from him wherein he makes IH the Diameter of his central ball, & such parts as the greatest Diameter of his Ring AB is 9 & its least or inward diameter CD 6 6/10 which proportions as often as I have viewed this Planet with long & good Telescope I have ever found as exact as they could be determined by observation or judgement.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Copy of a figure of Saturn from C. Huygens, Systema Saturnium (The Hague: A. Vlach, 1659), p. 47.
Related fellows
Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
Associated place