Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15657

    Satellite of Saturn

    Date
    9 June 1662
    Creator
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p7
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 210mm
    width (page): 153mm
    Subject
    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.

    There is a copy at LBO/1/062.
    Related fellows
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Netherlands
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