Ring of Saturn
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                                9 June 1662
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                p6
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                Dimensions
                            
                            
                                height (page): 210mm
width (page): 153mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (page): 153mm
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                                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.
There are copies at LBO/1/061 and LBC/1/073.
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            There are copies at LBO/1/061 and LBC/1/073.
                                Related fellows
                            
                            
                                Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
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