Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens (File:Loudspeaker.png listen (info • help)) (April 14, 1629–July 8, 1695) was a Dutch physicist, mathematician and astronomer, born in The Hague. He was known for his idea that light was made of waves. He discovered Saturn's largest moon Titan in 1655. He also did detailed studies on Saturn's rings, and in 1656, he discovered that they are made up of rocks. He also studied optics and pendulum clocks.
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).. |
Christiaan Huygens Media
- Adriaen Hanneman - Constantijn Huygens and his-five-children.png
Constantijn surrounded by his five children (Christiaan, top right). Mauritshuis, The Hague.
- KettingHyugens.jpg
Picture of a hanging chain (catenary) in a manuscript of Huygens
- Christiaan Huygens by Jaques Clerion.jpg
Christiaan Huygens, relief by Jean-Jacques Clérion (c. 1670)
- Christiaan-huygens2.jpg
Huygens, right of centre, from L'établissement de l'Académie des Sciences et fondation de l'observatoire, 1666 by Henri Testelin (c. 1675)
Hofwijck, Huygens's summer home; now a museum
- Fig. 2. The second stage of the research on the topic of circle quadrature.tif
Huygens's first publication was in the field of quadrature.
- Huygens floating bodies.jpg
Huygens's results for the stability of a floating rectangular parallelepiped
- Collision huygens.gif
A boating metaphor as a way to think about relative motion, simplifying the theory of colliding bodies, from Huygens's Oeuvres Complètes
- Christiaan Huygens Clock and Horologii Oscillatorii.jpg
Spring-driven pendulum clock, designed by Huygens and built by Salomon Coster (1657), with a copy of the Horologium Oscillatorium (1673), at Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
Diagram showing the evolute of a curve