July – Luglio 8

🇬🇧 – 🇮🇹 In 1695 the Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist (one of the protagonists of the scientific revolution), Christiaan Huygens, died. In 1655, using a refracting telescope of his own manufacture, he discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and theorized that Saturn was surrounded by a thin and flat ring, not connected to the planet,…