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Saturn Rings And Titan Research Paper

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Saturn Rings & Titan (1655)
Said Saturn was surrounded by a solid ring
Used self-made 50 power refracting telescope to discover saturn’s moons (Titan)

Mars & Syrtis Major (1659)
First to observe surface feature “Syrtis Major” which is a volcanic plain on mars.
Used the feature to track how long an average day is on mars.

Cosmotheoros (1695)
Speculated extraterrestrial life on other planets
Went into great detail but without the understanding of the basic needs for life and Newton’s law of gravitation.
Argued that extraterrestrial life is neither confirmed or denied

Proposed the earliest theory of the nature of light.

Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum - Theory and Design of the Pendulum Clock
Discours de la cause de la pesanteur

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