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Dutch Light - Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe (Hardcover)
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Dutch Light - Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe (Hardcover)
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'At last - a scintillating biography of Christiaan Huygens . . .
Hugh Aldersley-Williams has evocatively illuminated this brilliant
polymath who laid the foundations of modern European science.' Dr
Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
'Fascinating . . . an impressive piece of scholarship. I learned a
lot.' John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things and In Search
of Schroedinger's Cat Filled with incident, discovery, and
revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's
remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the
story of the birth of modern science as we know it. Europe's
greatest scientist during the latter half of the seventeenth
century, Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A towering figure
in the fields of astronomy, optics, mechanics, and mathematics,
many of his innovations in methodology, optics and timekeeping
remain in use to this day. Among his many achievements, he
developed the theory of light travelling as a wave, invented the
mechanism for the pendulum clock, and discovered the rings of
Saturn - via a telescope that he had also invented. A man of
fashion and culture, Christiaan came from a family of
multi-talented individuals whose circle included not only leading
figures of Dutch society, but also artists and philosophers such as
Rembrandt, Locke and Descartes. The Huygens family and their
contemporaries would become key actors in the Dutch Golden Age, a
time of unprecedented intellectual expansion within the
Netherlands. Set against a backdrop of worldwide religious and
political turmoil, this febrile period was defined by danger,
luxury and leisure, but also curiosity, purpose, and tremendous
possibility. Following in Huygens's footsteps as he navigates this
era while shuttling opportunistically between countries and
scientific disciplines, Hugh Aldersey-Williams builds a compelling
case to reclaim Huygens from the margins of history and acknowledge
him as one of our most important and influential scientific
figures.
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