• runner Wil Huygen (1922–2009), Dutch children's and fantasy writer, e.g. of Gnomes Constantijn Huygens Prize, Dutch literary award Huygens Institute for...
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    Saturn's upper atmosphere. The Huygens module traveled with Cassini until its separation from the probe on December 25, 2004; Huygens landed by parachute on Titan...
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    "Christiaan Huygens", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews Huygens and music theory Huygens–Fokker Foundation —on Huygens's 31 equal...
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    Christiaan Huygens, who discovered Titan in 1655. The combined Cassini–Huygens spacecraft was launched from Earth on 15 October 1997. Huygens separated...
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    The Huygens–Fresnel principle (named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel) states that every point on a...
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    father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Constantijn Huygens was born in The Hague, the second son of Christiaan Huygens (senior), secretary of the Council...
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    and physician Christiaan Huygens. List of tallest mountains in the Solar System Astrogeology MP - Mons Huygens "Mons Huygens". Gazetteer of Planetary...
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    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 period...
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    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 a "horary...
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  • 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...
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    Rings of Saturn (redirect from Huygens Gap)
    back by Voyager 2, the Huygens Gap is located at the inner edge of the Cassini Division. It contains the dense, eccentric Huygens Ringlet in the middle...
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  • for object analysis and colocalization. Huygens software is named after the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens who is perhaps best known for his argument...
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  • Huygens is a Dutch patronymic surname, meaning "son of Hugo". Huygens may also refer to: Huygens (spacecraft), the probe which landed on Saturn's moon...
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  • 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 and...
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  • Willibrord Joseph Huygen (23 June 1922  – 14 January 2009) was a Dutch book author. He is best known for the picture books on gnomes, illustrated by Rien...
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    Titan (moon) (category Discoveries by Christiaan Huygens)
    was discovered on March 25, 1655, by the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Huygens was inspired by Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's four largest moons...
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    Huygens' principle, and is part of the explanation of Fermat's principle. But it can also be shown that the geometric construction by which Huygens tried...
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    Lodewijck Huygens (13 March 1631 – 1 July 1699) was a Dutch diplomat. Huyghens was the third son of the diplomat Constantijn Huygens and Suzanna van Baerle...
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    not until Huygens used greater telescopic magnification that this notion was refuted, and the rings were truly seen for the first time. Huygens also discovered...
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    The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: Constantijn Huygens-prijs) is a Dutch literary award. Since 1947, it has been awarded each year for an author's...
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  • The Christiaan Huygens Medal, named after the mathematician and natural philosopher Christiaan Huygens, is a prize awarded by the European Geosciences...
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    Cornélie Lydie Huygens (13 June 1848 – 31 October 1902) was a Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist. Huygens was born on 13 June 1848 in Haarlemmerliede...
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    Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens and his brother Constantijn Huygens, Jr., though it is not clear if they actually invented...
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    disputed both at the time and ever since between Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens. Prior to this, the only force limiting the back and forth motion of the...
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    vibrations could be perpendicular to the direction of propagation. Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) worked out a mathematical wave theory of light in 1678 and...
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    definition. Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, pp. 39–40. Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, pp. 40–41. Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson, pp. 16, 42. Huygens, 1690, tr. Thompson...
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  • Tidal locking http://phys.org/news/2016-03-huygens-pendulum-synchronization.html - Researchers prove Huygens was right about pendulum synchronization Tiebout...
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    This article provides a timeline of the Cassini–Huygens mission (commonly called Cassini). Cassini was a collaboration between the United States' NASA...
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    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...
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    Christiaan Huygens SMN ordered two much bigger ocean liners at NSM, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Marnix van Sint Aldegonde. Christiaan Huygens was registered...
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