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A45273	The celestial worlds discover'd, or, Conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets written in Latin by Christianus Huygens, and inscrib'd to his brother, Constantine Huygens ...; Kosmotheōros. English	Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.; Huygens, Constantijn, 1628-1697.	1698 (1698)	Wing H3859; ESTC R5990	59,610	157

THE Celestial Worlds DISCOVER'D OR CONJECTURES Concerning the INHABITANTS PLANTS and PRODUCTIONS OF THE Worlds in the Planets Written in Latin by CHRISTIANVS HVYGENS And inscrib'd to his Brother CONSTANTINE HVYGENS Late Secretary to his Majesty K. William LONDON Printed for TIMOTHY CHILDE at the White Hart at the West-end of St. Paul's Church-yard MDCXCVIII TO THE READER THIS Book was just finished and designed for the Press when the Author to the great loss of the Learned World was seized by a Disease that brought him to his Death However he took care in his last Will of its Publication desiring his Brother to whom it was writ to take that Trouble upon him But he was so taken up with Business and Removals as being Secretary in Holland to the King of Great Britain that he could find no time for it till a year after the Death of the Author When it so fell out that the Printers being somewhat tardy and this Gentleman dying the Book was left without either Father or Guardian Yet it now ventures into the Publick in the same method that it was writ by the Author and with the same Inscription to his Brother tho dead in confidence that this last Piece of his will meet with as kind a reception from the World as all the other Works of that Author have 'T is true there are not every where Mathematical Demonstrations but where they are wanting you have probable and ingenious Conjectures which is the most that can be reasonably expected in such matters What belongs to or has any thing to do with Astronomy you will see demonstrated and the rest ingeniously and shrewdly guess'd at from the affinity and relation of the heavenly Bodies to the Earth For your farther Satisfaction read on and farewel THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER I Doubt not but I shall incur the Censures of learned Men for putting this Book into English because they 'l say it renders Philosophy cheap and vulgar and which is worse furnishes a sort of injudicious People with a smattering of Notions which being not able to make a proper use of they pervert to the Injury of Religion and Science I confess the Allegation is too true but after Bishop Wilkins Dr. Burnet Mr. Whiston and others to say nothing of the antient Philosophers who wrote in their own Tongues I say after these great Authors have treated on as learned and abstruse Subjects in the same Language I hope their Example will be allowed a sufficient excuse for printing this Book in English Concerning this Edition I can say that I have taken care to have the Cuts exactly done and have plac'd each Figure at the Page of the Book that refers to it which I take to be more convenient to the Reader than putting 'em all at the end I have been careful to procure the best Paper that I might in some measure come up to the Beauty of the Latin Edition tho this bear but half the Price of it And I hope the Translator has express'd the Author's Sense aright and has not committed Faults beyond what an ingenuous Reader can pardon By the Corrector's fault Knowlege is spelt thro-out the Book without a d. Book 1. NEW CONJECTURES Concerning the Planetary Worlds THEIR INHABITANTS AND PRODUCTIONS Written by CHRISTIANUS HUYGENS and inscrib'd to his Brother CONSTANTINE HUYGENS. BOOK the First A Man that is of Copernicus's Opinion that this Earth of ours is a Planet carry'd round and enlighten'd by the Sun like the rest of them cannot but sometimes have a fancy that it 's not improbable that the rest of the Planet have their Dress and Furniture nay and their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours Especially if he considers the later Discoveries made since Copernicus's time of the Attendents of Jupiter and Saturn and the Champain and hilly Countrys in the Moon which are an Argument of a relation and kin between our Earth and them as well as a proof of the Truth of that System This has often been our talk I remember good Brother over a large Telescope when we have been viewing those Bodies a study that your continual business and absence have interrupted for this many years But we were always apt to conclude that 't was in vain to enquire after what Nature had been pleased to do there seeing there was no likelihood of ever coming to an end of the Enquiry Nor could I ever find that any Philosophers those bold Heros either antient or modern ventur'd so far At the very birth of Astronomy when the Earth was first asserted to be Spherical and to be surrounded ●…th Air even then there were some men so bold as to affirm Some have already talk'd of the Inhabitants of the Planets but went no farther there were ●n innumerable company of Worlds 〈◊〉 the Stars But later Authors such as Cardinal Cusanus Brunus Kepler and if we may believe him Tycho was of that opinion too have furnish'd the Planets with Inhabitants Nay Cusanus and Brunus have allow'd the Sun and fixed Stars theirs too But this was the utmost of their boldness nor has the ingenious French Author of the Dialogues about the Plurality of Worlds carry'd the business any farther Only some of them have coined some pretty Fairy Stories of the Men in the Moon just as probable as Lucian's true History among which I must count Kepler's which he has diverted us with in his Astronomical Dream But a while ago thinking somewhat seriously of this matter not that I count my self quicker sighted than those great Men but that I had the happiness to live after most of them methoughts the enquiry was not so impracticable nor the way so stopt up with Difficulties but th●… there was very good room left for probable Conjectures As they came in to my head I clapt them down int● common places and shall now try to digest them into some tolerable Method for your better conception of them and add somewhat of the Sun and Fixt Stars and the Extent of that Universe of which our Earth is but an inconsiderable point I know you have such an esteem and reverence for any thing that belongs to Heaven that I perswade my self you will read what I have written without pain I 'm sure I writ it with a great deal of pleasure but as often before so now I find the saying of Archytas true even to the Letter That tho a Man were admitted into Heaven to view the wonderful Fabrick of the World and the Beauty of the Stars yet what would otherwise be Rapture and Extasie would be but a melancholy Amazement if he had not a Friend to communicate it to I could wish indeed that all the World might not be my Judges but that I might chuse my Readers Men like you not ignorant in Astronomy and true Philosophy for with such I might promise my self a favourable hearing and not need to make an Apology for daring to vent any thing new to