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Definition of Huygens
1. Noun. Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huygens
Literary usage of Huygens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Descartes's optical theory was destroyed, and Huygens undertook to build up a
... The axiom that had so happily served Huygens in the study of the impact of ..."
2. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"With Huygens' aerial telescope, the object- glass was fixed to the top of a ...
The main improvement was a micrometer, which gave Huygens' telescope its one ..."
3. A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the by Isaac Todhunter (1873)
"WE have now to examine an essay by Huygens entitled Discours de la Cause de la
Pesanteur. A small quarto volume was published at Leyden, in 1690, ..."
4. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"The Undulatory or Wave Theory of Huygens.—The Dutch astronomer and physicist ...
Although Huygens had stated that light is due to a vibratory motion in the ..."
5. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1918)
"The Undulatory or Wave Theory of Huygens.—The Dutch astronomer and physicist ...
Although Huygens had stated that light is due to a vibratory motion in the ..."
6. Manual of Petrographic Methods by Albert Johannsen (1914)
"The Undulatory or Wave Theory of Huygens.—The Dutch astronomer and physicist ...
Although Huygens had stated that light is due to a vibratory motion in the ..."
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