It was no one, Huygens! Astronomer, mathematician and physicist, inventor of the pendulum clock and the theory of light, he had discovered the ring of Saturn and the satellite Titan.
His book, which a British expert in old books has just come across, is called ” The celestial world discovered: conjectures on the inhabitants, the plants and the productions of the worlds in the planets “.
According to Huygens, the inhabitants of Jupiter or Saturn necessarily had hands, like us, since it is still the most convenient thing for…
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