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Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, FRS (/ ˈ h aɪ ɡ ən z / HY-gənz, [2] US also / ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / HOY-gənz; [3] Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɦœyɣə(n)s] ⓘ; also spelled Huyghens; Latin: Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.
Bangeman Huygens was the son of Willem Vincent Bangeman, a merchant in the Dutch East India Company, and Catharina Constantia Huygens (whose surname he in 1781 added to that of his father [1]). He became a partisan of the Patriot faction , but was nevertheless sent out in 1793 with the last envoy of the Dutch Republic to Denmark, Jacob Fagel as ...
'The Archives of Christiaan Huygens and his Editors', in Michael Hunter, ed., Archives of the Scientific Revolution. Woodbridge, 1998. The Letters of Christiaan Huygens, Revue d'histoire des sciences Année, 56(1), 2003, pp. 135–143. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens including a concordance with his Oeuvres Complètes ...
A 1682 demonstration of Huygens gunpowder engine, where a dram of gunpowder creates enough vacuum to lift 8 boys into the air. Huygens, however, became interested in the mechanical power of the vacuum, and the possibility of using gunpowder to produce one. In 1678 he outlined a gunpowder engine consisting of a vertical tube containing a piston ...
Christiaan Huygens was the first person to describe Saturn's rings as a disk surrounding Saturn. In 1655, Huygens became the first person to suggest that Saturn was surrounded by a ring, after Galileo's much less advanced telescope had failed to show rings. Galileo had reported the anomaly as possibly 3 planets instead of one.
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Horologium Oscillatorium: Sive de Motu Pendulorum ad Horologia Aptato Demonstrationes Geometricae (English: The Pendulum Clock: or Geometrical Demonstrations Concerning the Motion of Pendula as Applied to Clocks) is a book published by Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens in 1673 and his major work on pendula and horology.
Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflection & Refraction (French: Traité de la Lumière: Où sont expliquées les causes de ce qui luy arrive dans la reflexion & dans la refraction) is a book written by Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens that was published in French in 1690.