Andy McKenzie

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Huygens also discovered Saturn’s largest moon, which he named Titan, and was the first to notice markings on Mars. But Huygens couldn’t be tied to the telescope all the time. He had too many other things on his mind. It is even said that he chided Cassini, his boss at the Paris Observatory, for the director’s slavish devotion to daily observing.
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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