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Cosmotheoros, or conjectures concerning the planetary worlds, and their inhabitants

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Cosmotheoros, or conjectures concerning the planetary worlds, and their inhabitants
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Description	Written in Latin by Christianus Huygens. Illustrated with plates. This translation was first published in 1689. In the present edition many places have been corrected.
Shelfmark	ABS.1.78.500
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1757 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Glasgow > Glasgow (inhabited place) [Place printed] Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Glasgow > Glasgow (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Translations (documents) Planets Life (biological concept) Extraterrestrial bodies
Person / organisation:	Foulis Press [Printer] Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 [Author]
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