[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the ...

Using his own telescopes, Christiaan Huygens made important discoveries in astronomy, including Titan, the biggest of Saturn’s moons, and a first-ever accurate depiction of Saturn’s rings. By ...

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the ...

Dutch-born Christiaan Huygens is probably one of the most famous physicists you've never heard of. His work in the late 17th ...

Hugh Aldersey-Williams traces the philosophical connections of a polymath. When the Dutch astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens died in 1695 at the age of sixty-six, the German philosopher ...

More than 40 years later, Christiaan Huygens proposed that they were rings. The rings are made of ice and rock and scientists are not yet sure how they formed. The gaseous planet is mostly ...

As its name suggests, the Haags Historisch Museum (The Hague Historical Museum) is dedicated to the history of that city in ...

Fifty years later, with a larger and more powerful telescope, Dutch polymath and lens grinder Christiaan Huygens discovered ...

Inside, author Christiaan Huygens explores his fascination with the potential existence of extra-terrestrial beings. Mr Spencer said its contents seemed "almost comical". The book, lengthily ...

The intuitive answer is Isaac Newton; the correct one is Christiaan Huygens (1629–95), his older Dutch rival who was acclaimed all over Europe, even by churlish Newton. Finding himself stumped by the ...

The Christiaan Huygens Medal was established by the Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems Division to recognise significant contributions in fields within the scope of the division. The medal ...