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List of things named after Christiaan Huygens

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Foundation Huygens' tritone, a musical interval Huygens' engine Christiaan Huygens College, High School in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Huygens College, High...

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List of scientific laws named after people

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This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym. Eponym Fields of science List of eponymous...

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List of minor planets named after people

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Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan) 2780 Monnig (Oscar Monnig) 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens) 2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà) 2842 Unsöld (Albrecht Unsöld)...

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Pendulum

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ISBN 978-0-395-20360-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) defined by Christiaan Huygens: Huygens, Christian (1673). "Horologium Oscillatorium"...

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History of physics

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and inventor Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) was the leading scientist in Europe between Galileo and Newton. Huygens came from a family of nobility that...

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Rings of Saturn

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Christiaan Huygens was the first person to describe them as a disk surrounding Saturn. The concept that Saturn's rings are made up of a series of tiny...

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History of watches

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Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens. Prior to this, the only force limiting the back and forth motion of the balance wheel under the force of the escapement...

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List of Dutch discoveries

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and noted that the solution is the same curve as Huygens's tautochrone curve. Christiaan Huygens observed that two pendulum clocks mounted next to each...

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List of Dutch inventions and innovations

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lenses. It was invented by Christiaan Huygens in the late 1660s and was the first compound (multi-lens) eyepiece. Huygens discovered that two air spaced...

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Clock

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occurred after 1656 with the invention of the pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens. A major stimulus to improving the accuracy and reliability of clocks...

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Light

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perpendicular to the direction of propagation. Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) worked out a mathematical wave theory of light in 1678 and published it...

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Scientific phenomena named after people

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reaction – Heinz Hunsdiecker and Cläre Hunsdiecker Huygens–Fresnel principle – Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel Imbert–Fedorov effect – Christian...

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List of largest optical telescopes historically

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telescopes in the 18th century List of space telescopes List of telescope types Microscope (For magnifying very small things) "Original mirror for William...

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History of classical mechanics

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professors, except for a few who were his own pupils, it was negligible. Christiaan Huygens was the foremost mathematician and physicist in Western Europe. He...

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Robert Hooke

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dispute between Hooke and Christiaan Huygens on the priority of this invention was to continue for centuries after the death of both but a note dated 23...

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History of the telescope

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attributed to Christiaan Huygens and his brother Constantijn Huygens, Jr. although it is not clear that they invented it. Christiaan Huygens and his brother...

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Archimedes

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Yoder, J. (1996). "Following in the footsteps of geometry: the mathematical world of Christiaan Huygens". De Zeventiende Eeuw. Jaargang 12. Archived from...

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Baruch Spinoza

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such as scientist Christiaan Huygens, mathematician Johannes Hudde, and Secretary of the British Royal Society Henry Oldenburg. Huygens and others notably...

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Astronomical unit

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Sun and Earth: a solar parallax of 15″ is equivalent to an Earth–Sun distance of 13,750 Earth radii. Christiaan Huygens believed that the distance was...

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Timeline of historic inventions

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Pressure-cooker: Invented by Denis Papin. 1680: Christiaan Huygens provides the first known description of a piston engine. 1698: Thomas Savery developes...

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Anagram

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existing. In 1656, Christiaan Huygens, using a better telescope than those available to Galileo, figured that Galileo's earlier observations of Saturn actually...

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History of thermodynamics

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motion and nothing else." In 1637, in a letter to the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, the French philosopher René Descartes wrote: Lifting 100 lb one foot...

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Blaise Pascal

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theory, did not develop the field very far. Christiaan Huygens, learning of the subject from the correspondence of Pascal and Fermat, wrote the first book...

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List of French inventions and discoveries

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Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century (with Gerolamo Cardano and Christiaan Huygens). Vernier scale by Pierre Vernier in 1631. Spirit level by Melchisédech...

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