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Seems like it makes more sense to say "Earth's moon" rather than "the Moon". |
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}}</ref> Christiaan, with the help of his brother [[Constantijn Huygens, Jr.]], began building telescopes around 1650. Christiaan Huygens discovered this first observed moon orbiting Saturn with the first telescope they built.<ref>[http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/object/telescoop-12-voets-v09196e/ Telescope by Huygens, Christiaan Huygens, The Hague, 1683 Inv V09196]{{dead link|date=January 2014}}, Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis van de Natuurwetenschappen en van de Geneeskunde</ref>
He named it simply ''Saturni Luna'' (or ''Luna Saturni'', Latin for "Saturn's moon"), publishing in the 1655 tract ''De Saturni Luna Observatio Nova''. After [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]] published his discoveries of four more moons of Saturn between 1673 and 1686, astronomers fell into the habit of referring to these and Titan as Saturn I through V (with Titan then in fourth position). Other early epithets for Titan include "Saturn's ordinary satellite".<ref>
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