The Public Domain Review“The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life”, @HoooAW's essay exploring the first scientifically informed speculation about extraterrestrial life: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-uncertain-heavens
Daniel Ohanian@publicdomainrev This is amazing stuff. First, I’m amazed just as myself reading about 17th century speculators. I’m also amazed as a historian of the 17th and 18th century Middle East. I’m wondering what it must have been like for an #Armenian from the #Ottoman , Russian, or Iranian empires to come into contact with this incredibly rich intellectual world. It must have been so exciting for them!