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Christiaan Huygens

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Noun1.Christiaan Huygens - Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695)
Christian Huygens, Huygens
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The rings kept their secret another five decades before yielding to the insights and superior telescopes of Christiaan Huygens.
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Hooft, or the mathematician and astronomer Christiaan Huygens will already be familiar with at least a portion of the voluminous correspondence of Christiaan's father, Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687).
Driehonderd brieven over muziek van, aan en rond Constantijn Huygens by Orden, Kate Van / Renaissance Quarterly
It was invented by Christiaan Huygens in 1656, based on the pendulum introduced by Galileo.
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