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Paper, 'A remark on a passage in Dr Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra' by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/8i/51

Date: 17th Century

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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'. The drawing of Saturn is a copy from Christian Huygens, Systema Saturnium (The Hague: A. Vlach, 1659), p. 47.

Subject: Astronomy

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CLP/8i/51
Earliest possible date
17th Century
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'A remark on a passage in Dr Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra' by unknown author, 17th Century, CLP/8i/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_8i_51/paper-a-remark-on-a-passage-in-dr-burnets-telluris-theoria-sacra-by-unknown-author, accessed on 01 December 2024

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