https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/huygens-christiaan/57230/ https://wist.info/huygens-christiaan/57230/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:33:47 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=57230 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 the Planets, cannot but sometimes think, that it’s not improbable that the rest of the Planets have their Dress and Furniture, and perhaps their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours.

Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor
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