HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN

krĭsˈtyän hoiˈgəns, 1629–95, Dutch mathematician and physicist; son of Constantijn Huygens. He improved telescopic lenses and discovered (1655) a satellite of Saturn and studied the rings of Saturn. His findings were described in his Systema Saturnium (1659). He was the first to use the pendulum in clocks. He developed a wave theory of light opposed to the corpuscular theory of Newton and formulated Huygens's principle, which holds that, concerning light waves, every point on a wave front is itself a source of new waves. In 1678 he discovered the polarization of light by double refraction in calcite. His chief work is Horologium oscillatorium (1673).

See his Oeuvres complètes (22 vol. in 23, 1888–1950); study by A. E. Bell (1947); A. Elzinga, On a Research Program in Early Modern Physics (1972).

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Giants of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and the Natural Philosophers : The Parallel Search for Knowledge during the Age of Discovery
Book by Robert D. Huerta; Bucknell University Press, 2003
Subjects: Art And Science--History--17th Century, Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van--1632-1723, Vermeer, Johannes--1632-1675
...musicology. See H. F. Cohen, Christiaan Huygens on Consonance and the Division of the Octave, in Studies on Christiaan Huygens: Invited Papers from the Symposium on the Life and Work of Christiaan Huygens, Amsterdam, 22-25 August...
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Biographical Encyclopedia of Mathematicians - Vol. 1
Includes: Abel - Jacobi
Book by Donald R. Franceschetti; Marshall Cavendish, 1999
Subjects: Mathematicians--Biography--Encyclopedias
...lumiere, 1690 (Treatise on Light, 1912) About Huygens Christiaan Huygens. H. J. M. Bos. In Diction- an/ of Scientific...New York: Charles Scrib- ners Sons, 1972. Christiaan Huygens. In The Biographical Dic- tionary of Scientists...
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Antony van Leeuwenhoek and His "Little Animals": Being Some Account of the Father of Protozoology and Bacteriology and His Multifarious Discoveries in These Disciplines
Book by Clifford Dobell, Antony van Leeuwenhoek; Harcourt, Brace, 1922
Subjects: Bacteria, Leeuwenhoek, Antoni Van--1632-1723, Protozoa
...1 vol. London. 1705. HUYGENS, Christiaan 1703 . Opuscula Posthuma etc. . 4 . Lugd. Bat. HUYGENS, Christiaan 1728 . Opera Reliqua . 4...Dioptrica, pp. 173-6. HUYGENS, Christiaan: OEuvres Completes, publiees...
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Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Christopher Baker; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Authoritarianism--Europe--History--17th Century, Authoritarianism--Europe--History--18th Century, Enlightenment--Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries
...Christopher E. Hendricks HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN (1629-1695). Huygens is famous for his work in...influential father, *Constantijn Huygens, directed the University...Until the age of fifteen, Christiaan was schooled at home, a...
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Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
Book by Lance Day, Ian Mcneil; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: Inventions--History--Dictionaries, Inventors--Biography--Dictionaries, Technology--History--Dictionaries
...College of Surgeons of England. MG Huygens, Christiaan b. 14 April 1629 The Hague...balance spring to the watch. Huygens was born into a cultured and privileged...until he reached the age of 16. Christiaan studied law and mathematics at...
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Driehonderd Brieven over Muziek Van, Aan En Rond Constantijn Huygens
Journal article by Kate Van Orden; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Driehonderd brieven over muziek van, aan en rond Constantijn Huygens, vols. 1-2 (Book)--Book reviews
...Muziek Van, Aan En Rond Constantijn Huygens. by Kate Van Orden Rudolf Rasch...muziek van, aan en rond Constantijn Huygens. 2 volumes. Hilversum: Uitgeverij...the mathematician and astronomer Christiaan Huygens will already be familiar with at...
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The Eloquence of the Body: Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic
Journal article by Anne Mccants; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Eloquence of the Body: Perspectives on Gesture in the Dutch Republic (Book)--Book reviews
...documentation of the socially ambitious Huygens family: father Constantijn, grandfather Christiaan, and grandsons of the same names. Their...reader is sufficiently convinced that the Huygens family was not simply an anomaly, but rather...
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A Twin Legacy: Hyperbolic Lenses and Mechanical Makers
Journal article; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 95, 2005
Subjects: Craftsmen, Descartes, Rene (1596-1650), Inventions, Inventors, Mechanical drawing, Science history
...lens grinding.2"1 When Christiaan Huygens, initially enthusiastic...Society in late January 1669 by Christiaan Huygens, and it read: This was duly...Society, and in Holland, Christiaan Huygens scribbled a telling note in...
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Patterns of Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Mechanics
Journal article by Domenico Bertoloni Meli; The Monist, Vol. 93, 2010
Subjects: Mechanics (Physics)--Analysis, Mechanics (Physics)--History, Mechanics--Analysis, Mechanics--History, Philosophy of science--Analysis, Science history--Analysis, Science/History and Nature of Science, Science--Analysis, Science--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Science--History
...Hookes law. Thus in a sense Huygens was able to morph a cycloidal...mathematicians, such as Isaac Beeckman, Christiaan Huygens, and Christopher Wren, took...Meli, TwO, 119. (18.) Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres completes (La Haye...
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Gentlemen in Satin
Journal article by Alison McNeil Kettering; Art Journal, Vol. 56, 1997
Subjects: Art history, Fashion, Fine arts, Men, Netherlands
...of Constantijn Huygenss son Christiaan Huygens, a gifted scientist who spent...back home from Paris briefly, Christiaan commissioned Netscher to portray...the portraits of Verzijl and Christiaan Huygens (figs. 4, 6)the male sitter...
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Destination: Titan
Magazine article by John C. Zarnecki; Natural History, Vol. 113, December 2004
Subjects: Atmosphere, Moons, Saturn, Space exploration
...saucer-shaped object named Huygens will encounter an atmosphere for...Dutch physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens, who deduced in 1655 that Titan...about the moon remained much as Huygens had left it until 1944, when Gerard...
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A Moon like No Other: Larger Than Some Planets, Saturn's Biggest Moon Indeed Is a "Titan" of the Solar System
Magazine article by Judith Braffman-Miller; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 140, July 2011
Subjects: Satellites (Astronomical bodies)--Composition, Satellites (Astronomical bodies)--Discovery and exploration, Satellites (Astronomical bodies)--Measurement, Satellites--Composition, Satellites--Discovery and exploration, Satellites--Measurement, Saturn (Planet)--Discovery and exploration, Saturn (Planet)--Observations
...in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, and it is bigger than the planet...existence of Xanadu. The Cassini-Huygens (CH) mission is a joint NASA...Saturns moons, and the ESA-created Huygens Probe, named for Huygens. After...
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Saturn: a New View
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 117, June 2008
Subjects: Astronomy, Earth, Moons, Saturn, Space exploration
...explore Saturn from orbit. The Huygens probe-which separated from the...quarter scale model of the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, which takes it name...Cassini and the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, both of whom made significant...
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New Video Compression Technology Developed
Magazine article; Information Today, Vol. 12, October 1995
Subjects: Algorithms, Asia, Multimedia computer applications, Technological change, Video compression
...recent development of digital video compression. Huygens development of an advanced digital video compression...mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher Christiaan Huygens (1629-95). Huygens ancestor is best known for his invention of the...
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The Perimeter of Ignorance
Magazine article by Neil Degrasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 114, November 2005
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, Books, Deities, Galilei, Galileo, Newton, Isaac (1642-1727), Scientists, Writing
...seventeenth-century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, whose achievements include constructing...solar system, and thats where Huygens raises questions to which he has...seventeenth-century biology, Huygens invokes the hand of God only when...
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Landing on Planet Mystery; after 2bn-Mile Trip, Probe Will Try to Unlock Titan's Secrets
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 15, 2005
Subjects: Huygens, Christiaan
...Hopefully today we will know whether Huygens has landed with a crunch, splashed...Titanian swamp. This morning, Huygens is now dead - its batteries exhausted...in 1655 by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens - after whom the probe which landed...
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Planetarium Is Watching as Spacecraft Rings Up Saturn
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 7, 2004
Subjects: Huygens, Christiaan
...cruised past Saturn, the Cassini-Huygens probe is expected to unlock some...in October 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint effort by NASA...Giovanni Cassini of Italy and Christiaan Huygens of The Netherlands. The Cassini...
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The RAF's Vital Extra Few; Answers to Correspondents
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 22, 2005
...to the famous Dutch horologist Christiaan Huygens (who had previously, in 1656...in watches in 1658. He accused Huygens of plagiarism, a charge that in...president Sir Robert Moray telling Huygens he had already seen such a spring...
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Astrobiology Pioneers in Wales Make Titan-Ic Leap
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 10, 2005
...closely following the progress of European Space Agencys Huygens probe this Friday when it lands on the surface of...discovered on March 25, 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens (in whose honour the probe is named). The temperature...
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King of the Watchmakers
Newspaper article by Mark Forster; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 12, 2000
...in 1584, but it was not until 1656 that the first pendulum clock was built by Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist. Then the pace of change quickened. Huygens developed the balance wheel and spring assembly, still found in some of todays...
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Huygens, Christiaan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUYGENS, CHRISTIAAN kris tyan hoi g ns, 1629 95, Dutch mathematician and physicist; son of Constantijn Huygens. He improved telescopic lenses and discovered (1655) a satellite...
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Huygens, Constantijn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUYGENS, CONSTANTIJN konstantin hoi g ns, 1596...and poet, b. The Hague; father of Christiaan Huygens. He was broadly educated in languages...executive of the province of The Hague. Huygens wrote verse in seven languages as well...
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Saturn , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Voyager 2 (1981), and Cassini and Huygens (2004). Among the discoveries...satellites and its ring system. Huygens landed on Saturns moon Titan in...rings were correctly interpreted by Christiaan Huygens , who did not reveal his findings...
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Pendulum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the pendulum, the longer is the time of its swing. Christiaan Huygens determined an exact relation between the length of...and =3.14 (see harmonic motion ). In 1673, Huygens devised a practicable means of making a pendulum control...
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Titan , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...days. Titan was discovered by the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens in 1655. Titan was thought to be the largest satellite...interact gravitationally. In 2004 the space probe Huygens, which had been carried to Saturn by Cassini, landed...
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