“Now since in so many Things they… agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?”

— Christiaan Huygens

Book 1, p. 18
Cosmotheoros (1695; publ. 1698)

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