Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16009

    Diagrams of Saturn

    Date
    30 September 1661
    Creator
    Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 2006, Dutch) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p2
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 211mm
    width (page): 146mm
    Subject
    Description
    Three diagrams representing Saturn and its rings.

    This is a letter dated 30 September 1661 at The Hague, from Christian Huygens, probably to M. Thevenot. Huygens thanks the recipient of the letter for the copy of a letter by B. de Frenicle de Bessy about the observations of Saturn. This might refer to a copy of a letter by Frenicle that was sent to Huygens by M. Thevenot on 25 September 1661 (see the Huygens Correspondence in Œuvres Complètes (The Hague, 1888-1950), letter no. 901).

    This letter is not published in the Huygens Correspondence.
    Related fellows
    Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691, British) , Natural philosopher
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