Drop Title De Saturni Luna Observatio Nona Sic The Hague Adriaan Vlacq 5 March 1656 Bound As Issued

by Christiaan Huygens

$65,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

The Hague: Adriaan Vlacq, 1655-1656. First edition, very rare and an exceptionally fine copy. The work is comprised of three related parts: Huygens’ discovery of Saturn’s rings and its moon Titan; Borel’s history of the telescope; and his discoveries with the microscope, the first to appear in book form. “In 1656 French physician, chemist, botanist, and savant Pierre Borel published the first documentary

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