Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1629)

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch mathematician and physicist (1629–1695)

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. In physics, Huygens made seminal contributions to optics and mechanics, while as an astronomer he studied…