[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 ...

[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 ...

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

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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 ...

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Œuvres complètes de Christiaan Huygens. Publiées par la Société Hollandaise des Sciences. Tome douzième, Travaux de Mathématiques pures 1652–1656. Pp. vi + 296. (La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff ...

Rare books, including Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica and Christiaan Huygens's Horologium Oscillatorium, detailing the invention of the pendulum clock, are also held. Restoration unearth's ...

In 1672, Leibniz went to Paris where he met the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, under whom he started exploring the fields of Mathematics and Physics. His major works in mathematics were the ...

On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant on a human being.

Christiaan Hetzner is a writer for Fortune covering Europe’s changing business landscape. He’s reported from Germany for the past two decades and is passionate about tracking industry’s ...