Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, FRS (/ˈhaɪɡənz/ HY-gənz, US: /ˈhɔɪɡənz/ HOY-gənz, Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɦœyɣə(n)s] ; also spelled Huyghens; Latin:... 134 KB (14,062 words) - 19:04, 8 April 2024 |
craft took their names from the astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens. Launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, Cassini... 123 KB (12,181 words) - 07:50, 23 April 2024 |
father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Constantijn Huygens was born in The Hague, the second son of Christiaan Huygens (senior), secretary of the... 22 KB (2,780 words) - 01:02, 27 February 2024 |
Momentum (section Christiaan Huygens) guarded. Huygens had actually worked them out in a manuscript De motu corporum ex percussione in the period 1652–1656. The war ended in 1667, and Huygens announced... 72 KB (9,778 words) - 15:06, 2 April 2024 |
Magic lantern (redirect from Huygens' lantern) correspondent and friend of Christiaan Huygens and may thus have been a very early adapter of the magic lantern technique that Huygens developed around this... 70 KB (8,211 words) - 08:43, 6 April 2024 |
History of physics (section Christiaan Huygens) was in this intellectual environment where Christiaan Huygens grew up. Christiaan's father, Constantijn Huygens, was, apart from an important poet, the secretary... 115 KB (14,029 words) - 09:43, 20 April 2024 |
Titan (moon) (category Discoveries by Christiaan Huygens) Titan was discovered on March 25, 1655, by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Huygens was inspired by Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's four largest... 173 KB (16,576 words) - 05:09, 21 April 2024 |
polymath Christiaan Huygens. Notable people with the surname include: Jan Huygen (1563–1611), Dutch voyager and historian Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687)... 2 KB (279 words) - 04:34, 10 December 2023 |
The Huygens–Fresnel principle (named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) states that every point on a... 24 KB (3,051 words) - 07:08, 19 February 2024 |
Pendulum (redirect from Huygens law) Royal Society in 1660, advocated by Christiaan Huygens and Ole Rømer, basing it on Mersenne's work, and Huygens in Horologium Oscillatorium proposed... 122 KB (14,432 words) - 11:39, 18 April 2024 |
Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch ocean liner that was built in 1927 by the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij for the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland... 26 KB (2,572 words) - 23:26, 7 July 2023 |
Huygens principle of double refraction, named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, explains the phenomenon of double refraction observed in uniaxial... 17 KB (2,036 words) - 12:47, 3 April 2024 |
The Christiaan Huygens Medal, named after the mathematician and natural philosopher Christiaan Huygens, is a prize awarded by the European Geosciences... 1 KB (87 words) - 23:41, 24 February 2024 |
philosophy (PDF). Part II, § 37, 39. Blackwell, Richard J.; Huygens, Christiaan (1977). "Christiaan Huygens' The Motion of Colliding Bodies". Isis. 68 (4): 574–597... 121 KB (15,363 words) - 05:12, 4 April 2024 |
Treatise on Light (category Books by Christiaan Huygens) book written by Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens that was published in French in 1690. The book describes Huygens's conception of the nature of light... 16 KB (1,931 words) - 18:06, 10 December 2023 |
Rings of Saturn (redirect from Huygens Gap) could not see them well enough to discern their true nature. In 1655, Christiaan Huygens was the first person to describe them as a disk surrounding Saturn... 143 KB (14,207 words) - 23:01, 27 April 2024 |
Neo-Latin term vi centrifuga ("centrifugal force") is attested in Christiaan Huygens' notes and letters. Note, that in Latin centrum means "center" and... 44 KB (5,725 words) - 14:07, 17 April 2024 |
Parallel axis theorem (redirect from Huygens-Steiner theorem) parallel axis theorem, also known as Huygens–Steiner theorem, or just as Steiner's theorem, named after Christiaan Huygens and Jakob Steiner, can be used to... 12 KB (2,002 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2024 |
Pendulum clock (redirect from Huygens' clock) and inventor Christiaan Huygens, and patented the following year. He described it in his manuscript Horologium published in 1658. Huygens contracted the... 39 KB (4,722 words) - 02:45, 4 March 2024 |
Gunpowder engine (redirect from Huygens' engine) in Paris, where he worked under the Curator of Experiments, Christiaan Huygens. Huygens set Papin to the task of carrying out a research effort on air... 13 KB (1,787 words) - 06:25, 13 September 2023 |