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Definition of Christiaan Huygens

1. Noun. Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695).

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Literary usage of Christiaan Huygens

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1. The American Mathematical Monthly by Mathematical Association of America (1922)
"The sixth journal is a bimonthly periodical entitled Christiaan Huygens, International Mathematisch Tijdschrift, and the first number (64 pages) was ..."

2. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1903)
"... 1663 1301 We have a contemporary notice of the signing of the charter-book by the King in a letter from R. Moray to Christiaan Huygens, dated aoth ..."

3. James Logan, 1674-1751, Bookman Extraordinary by Edwin Wolf, II, Edwin Wolf, Library Company of Philadelphia, Loganian Library (1971)
"The work ends with thirteen theorems relating to centrifugal force in circular motion which led Newton on to his law of gravity. Christiaan Huygens. ..."

4. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"Christiaan Huygens, the builder of the telescope, had described its needs: "In a large area every way open to the view of the heavens, let a long pole or ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"His father, Christiaan Huygens, was secretary to the state council, and a man of great political importance. At the baptism of the child, the city of Breda ..."

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