Huygens in a sentence

Besides, Huygens was looking by then to apply mathematics, while Fermat's concerns ran to purer topics. citation Scientific debut Huygens was often slow to publish his results and discoveries.

Christiaan Huygens, aOeuvres complètes, letter to his brother 23 September 1667 The quality of Spinoza's lenses was much praised by Christiaan Huygens, among others.

Experimental Setup of Huygens synchronization of two clocks In 1665 Huygens made a curious observation about pendulum clocks.

Huygens' principle and quantum field theory Huygens' principle can be seen as a consequence of the homogeneity of space—the space is uniform in all locations.

Portrait of Christiaan Huygens Bernard Vaillant (with glasses added by Alex Petrou).

Equipment to control Huygens after its separation from Cassini and a heat shield were contained in the Entry Assembly Module.

Give credit due were it's due, Christiaan Huygens had setups in the 1680's showing light behaves like waves that disagreed with Newton's particle theory of light.

A Huygens watch employed a spiral balance spring; but he used this form of spring initially only because the balance in his first watch rotated more than one and a half turns.

All of them identified Triton as being a prime target and a separate Triton lander comparable to the Huygens probe for Titan was frequently included in those plans.

Although Huygens only observed out-of-phase synchronization, recent investigations have shown the existence of in-phase synchronization, as well as "death" states wherein one or both clocks stops.

Although mathematics was not part of his course work, de Moivre read several works on mathematics on his own including Elémens des mathématiques by Jean Prestet and a short treatise on games of chance, De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae, by Christiaan Huygens.

As a result of the deployment from the Cassini spacecraft of the Huygens probe and its successful landing on Titan, Titan also holds the distinction of being the only object in the outer Solar System that has been explored with a lander.

As Shapin and Schaffer describe, “it became clear that unless the phenomenon could be produced in England with one of the two pumps available, then no one in England would accept the claims Huygens had made, or his competence in working the pump”.

Astronomy Huygens' telescope without tube.

Athanasius Kircher has also been credited for that. citation Horology Huygens designed more accurate clocks than were available at the time.

Both Fermat and Huygens repeated this accusation that Descartes had copied Snell.

British physicist and army captain Henry Kater in 1817 realized that Huygens' principle could be used to find the length of a simple pendulum with the same period as a real pendulum.

But Huygens' description of this conventional arrangement was quite precise, and is clearly identifiable with what is now classified as (quarter-comma) meantone temperament.

C. Huygens, "The Pendulum Clock or Geometrical Demonstrations Concerning the Motion of Pendula (sic) as Applied to Clocks," Translated by R. J. Blackwell, Iowa State University Press (Ames, Iowa, USA, 1986).

Early life Portrait of Huygens' father (center) and his five children (Christiaan at right).