For if 25 years are required for a Bullet out of a Cannon, with its utmost Swiftness, to travel from the Sun to us... such a Bullet would spend almost seven hundred thousand years in its Journey between us and the fix'd Stars. And yet when in a clear night we look upon them, we cannot think them above some few miles over our heads.


The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, or, Conjectures Concerning the, Planetary Worlds, Their Inhabitants and Productions (pp. 154-155), Printed for T. Childe. 1698

Christiaan Huygens Quotes

For if 25 years are required for a Bullet out of a Cannon, with its utmost Swiftness, to travel from the Sun to us... such a Bullet would spend...

For if 25 years are required for a Bullet out of a Cannon, with its utmost Swiftness, to travel from the Sun to us... such a Bullet would spend...

For if 25 years are required for a Bullet out of a Cannon, with its utmost Swiftness, to travel from the Sun to us... such a Bullet would spend...

For if 25 years are required for a Bullet out of a Cannon, with its utmost Swiftness, to travel from the Sun to us... such a Bullet would spend...