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This is a reprint of the Silvanus P. Thompson English translation of 1912 with the original illustrations.

"This is the book for which Galileo was imprisoned by the Inquisition."

"One of the great scientific classics of the 17th century, this brilliant exposition of the wave theory of light forms the claim to immortality of Christiaan Huygens."

"It was meant to be his great philosophical masterpiece, written for the world at large, but the rarity, unreadability, an inaccuracy of the only English translation (1661) considerably obscured it from view. Then, in 1953, the University of Chicago Press published its distinguished modern version: 'a splendid edition [which] provides the modern reader with the opportunity to understand, through the medium of Salusbury's vibrant Jacobean prose, the substance and significance of Galileo's scientific achievements, the power and reach of this mind and the passion and tragedy of his personal history.'"

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1722Original Publisher: Printed for T. ChildeSubjects: Plurality of worldsLife on other planetsCosmologyAstronomyFiction / Science Fiction / GeneralScience / AstronomyScience / CosmologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or an index.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Publisher: Printed for James KnaptonPublication date: 1722Subjects: Plurality of worldsCosmologyLife on other planetsFiction / Science Fiction / GeneralScience / AstronomyScience / CosmologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) wrote his famous treatise Traité de la Lumière, 300 years ago. Today, his wave principle continues to play an important role in the understanding of wave phenomena.

This volume is based on the 1990 Symposium which commemorated the 300th anniversary of the publication of his treatise.

Presented here are papers by leading researchers covering the wide range of topics to which the Principle applies. Subjects covered include the historical background, geometrical optics, ray and field theory, the mathematical analysis of wave propagation, quantum electronics and nonlinear optics. ... Read more

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Chapters: Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Christiaan Huygens, Ole Rømer, Christopher Wren, John Flamsteed, Christoph Scheiner, Pierre Gassendi, Johannes Hevelius, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Louis Feuillée, Niccolò Zucchi, Ismaël Bullialdus, Arthur Storer, Constantijn Huygens, Jr., Johann Baptist Cysat, Francisco Ruiz Lozano, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Peter Crüger, Gasparo Berti, Adrien Auzout, Paul Guldin, Jagannatha Samrat, Joseph Gaultier de La Vallette, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Jonathan Ben Joseph, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Kamalakara, Johann Abraham Ihle, Francesco Sizzi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 188. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: ; 15 February 1564 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and flautist who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," the "father of science," and "the Father of Modern Science." Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science." The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11945 ... Read more

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Chapters: Christiaan Huygens, Laurens Janszoon Coster, Kees Schouhamer Immink, Willem Einthoven, Cornelius Drebbel, Pieter Van Musschenbroek, Coenraad Johannes Van Houten, Jan Van Der Heyden, Sacharias Jansen, Metius, Willem Johan Kolff, Constantijn Huygens, Jr., Petrus Jacobus Kipp, Hans Lippershey, Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Diederik Hol, Jean-Pierre Minckelers, Jacob Metius, Peter Reijnders, Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Cornelis Corneliszoon, Hugo Koch, Carl Norden, Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, Adriaan Adriaanszoon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christiaan Huygens, FRS (English pronunciation: , Dutch: ; 14 April 1629 8 July 1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist, horologist, and writer of early science fiction. His work included early telescopic studies elucidating the nature of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping, and studies of both optics and the centrifugal force. Huygens achieved note for his argument that light consists of waves, now known as the HuygensFresnel principle, which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality. He generally receives credit for his discovery of the centrifugal force, the laws for collision of bodies, for his role in the development of modern calculus and his original observations on sound perception (see repetition pitch). Huygens is seen as the first theoretical physicist as he was the first to use formulae in physics. Christiaan Huygens by Bernard Vaillant, Museum Hofwijck, Voorburg Christiaan Huygens. Cut from the engraving following the painting of Caspar Netscher by G. Edelinck, between 1684 and 1687. Spring driven pendulum clock, designed by Huygens, built by instrument ma...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=42127 ... Read more

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Christiaan Huygens, FRSwas a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist, horologist, and writer of early science fiction. His work included early telescopic studies elucidating the nature of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping, and studies of both optics and the centrifugal force. Huygens achieved note for his argument that light consists of waves, now known as the Huygens–Fresnel principle, which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality. He generally receives credit for his discovery of the centrifugal force, the laws for collision of bodies, for his role in the development of modern calculus and his original observations on sound perception (see repetition pitch). Huygens is seen as the first theoretical physicist as he was the first to use formulae in physics. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christiaan Huygens, FRS (English pronunciation: , Dutch: ; 14 April 1629 8 July 1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist, horologist, and writer of early science fiction. His work included early telescopic studies elucidating the nature of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping, and studies of both optics and the centrifugal force. Huygens achieved note for his argument that light consists of waves, now known as the HuygensFresnel principle, which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality. He generally receives credit for his discovery of the centrifugal force, the laws for collision of bodies, for his role in the development of modern calculus and his original observations on sound perception (see repetition pitch). Huygens is seen as the first theoretical physicist as he was the first to use formulae in physics. Christiaan Huygens by Bernard Vaillant, Museum Hofwijck, Voorburg Christiaan Huygens. Cut from the engraving following the painting of Caspar Netscher by G. Edelinck, between 1684 and 1687. Spring driven pendulum clock, designed by Huygens, built by instrument maker Salomon Coster (1657) , and manuscript Horologium Oscillatorium , Museum Boerhaave, Leiden Huygens' telescope without tube. Picture from his 1684 Astroscopia Compendiaria tubi optici molimine liberata (compound telescopes without a tube) Huygens' explanation for the aspects of Saturn, Systema Saturnium, 1659.Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, (15961687), a friend of mathematician and philosopher René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle (deceased 1637), whom Constantijn had... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=42127 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1701 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Chapters: Dutch Nuclear Physicists, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Christiaan Huygens, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Hendrik Lorentz, Paul Ehrenfest, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Abraham Pais, Pieter Zeeman, Walter de Heer, Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff, Cees Dekker, Hendrik Casimir, Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals, Frits Zernike, Eric Mazur, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dirk Coster, Andre Geim, Wubbo Ockels, Karel Niessen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Leonard Ornstein, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Willem de Sitter, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Carolyne M. Van Vliet, Peter Mazur, Dirk Reuyl, Gerardus 't Hooft, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Martin Van Marum, Willem 'sgravesande, Adriaan Fokker, Wander Johannes de Haas, Hugo Christiaan Hamaker, Hugo Tetrode, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Pieter Rijke, Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Gerardus J. Sizoo, Simon Van Der Meer, Antonius Van Den Broek, Albert Polman, Erik Verlinde, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen, Johannes Bosscha, Aaldert Wapstra, Jan Burgers, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Pieter Kok, Jan Zaanen, Jona Oberski, Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz, Balthasar Van Der Pol, Jook Walraven, Dirk Ter Haar, Janwillem Van Den Berg, Hugo Rietveld, Hilbrand J. Groenewold, Robijn Bruinsma, Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dirk Polder, Jos Engelen, Johannes Petrus Kuenen, Hajo Meyer, Stefan Rozental, Carlo Beenakker, Bert Broer, Frans Michel Penning, Carel S. Scholten, Hessel de Vries, Arend Joan Rutgers, Herman Verlinde, Jan Smit, Willem Vos, Arie Andries Kruithof, Daan Frenkel, Bernard de Wit, Gerrit Jan Van Ingen Schenau, Hendricus Stoof. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 285. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Aaldert Hendrik Wapstra Aaldert Hendrik Wapstra (24 April 1923 - 2 December 2006, Naarden ) was a Dutch physicist .Wapstra became a full professor in 1955 at the department of experimental physics at the Technische Hogeschool, now the Te... ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Edsger W. Dijkstra, Christiaan Huygens, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Hendrik Lorentz, Paul Ehrenfest, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Abraham Pais, Pieter Zeeman, Walter de Heer, Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff, Cees Dekker, Hendrik Casimir, Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals, Frits Zernike, Eric Mazur, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dirk Coster, Andre Geim, Wubbo Ockels, Karel Niessen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Leonard Ornstein, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Willem de Sitter, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Carolyne M. Van Vliet, Peter Mazur, Dirk Reuyl, Gerardus 't Hooft, Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Martin Van Marum, Willem 'sgravesande, Adriaan Fokker, Wander Johannes de Haas, Hugo Christiaan Hamaker, Hugo Tetrode, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Pieter Rijke, Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Gerardus J. Sizoo, Simon Van Der Meer, Antonius Van Den Broek, Albert Polman, Erik Verlinde, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen, Johannes Bosscha, Aaldert Wapstra, Jan Burgers, Aldert Van Der Ziel, Pieter Kok, Jan Zaanen, Jona Oberski, Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz, Balthasar Van Der Pol, Jook Walraven, Dirk Ter Haar, Janwillem Van Den Berg, Hugo Rietveld, Hilbrand J. Groenewold, Robijn Bruinsma, Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dirk Polder, Jos Engelen, Johannes Petrus Kuenen, Hajo Meyer, Stefan Rozental, Carlo Beenakker, Bert Broer, Frans Michel Penning, Carel S. Scholten, Hessel de Vries, Arend Joan Rutgers, Herman Verlinde, Jan Smit, Willem Vos, Arie Andries Kruithof, Daan Frenkel, Bernard de Wit, Gerrit Jan Van Ingen Schenau, Hendricus Stoof. Excerpt: Christiaan Huygens, FRS (English pronunciation: , Dutch: ; 14 April 1629 8 July 1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist, horologist, and writer of early science fiction. His work included early telescopic studies elucidating the nature... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=42127 ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Christiaan Huygens, FRS (English pronunciation: , Dutch: ; 14 April 1629 - 8 July 1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist, horologist, and writer of early science fiction. His work included early telescopic studies elucidating the nature of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping, and studies of both optics and the centrifugal force. Huygens achieved note for his argument that light consists of waves, now known as the Huygens-Fresnel principle, which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality. He generally receives credit for his discovery of the centrifugal force, the laws for collision of bodies, for his role in the development of modern calculus and his original observations on sound perception (see repetition pitch). Huygens is seen as the first theoretical physicist as he was the first to use formulae in physics. Christiaan Huygens by Bernard Vaillant, Museum Hofwijck, Voorburg Christiaan Huygens. Cut from the engraving following the painting of Caspar Netscher by G. Edelinck, between 1684 and 1687. Spring driven pendulum clock, designed by Huygens, built by instrument maker Salomon Coster (1657), and manuscript Horologium Oscillatorium , Museum Boerhaave, Leiden Huygens' telescope without tube. Picture from his 1684 Astroscopia Compendiaria tubi optici molimine liberata (compound telescopes without a tube) Huygens' explanation for the aspects of Saturn, Systema Saturnium, 1659.Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, (1596-1687), a friend of mathematician and philosopher René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle (deceased 1637), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627. Christiaan studied law and mathematics at the University of Leiden and the College of Orange in Breda. After a stint as...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more