Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)
Christiaan Huygens, FRS (/ˈhaɪɡənz/ or /ˈhɔɪɡənz/; Dutch: [ˈɦœyɣə(n)s] ( listen)) (Latin: Hugenius) (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician and scientist. He is known particularly as an astronomer, physicist, probabilist, and horologist.
Huygens was a leading scientist of his time. His work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping. He published major studies of mechanics and optics, and pioneered work on games of chance.
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1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.
1659: Huygens makes sketches for a projection of Death taking off his head, an early example of Phantasmagoria.
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External links:
- Christiaan Huygens @ Wikipedia