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THE central interest of Huygens' life and work may be said to be his relations with Galilei and Descartes on one hand, and with Newton and the English men of science on the other. Descartes and Galilei were the brightest stars in the scientific firmament at Huygens' birth, and they influenced him in one way or another all his life. When he died in 1695 his own star, though still bright, too quickly paled beside the brilliance of the ascendant Newton. A study of Huygens' collected works leads to the view that claims may well be made for wider recognition of the importance of his work.
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BELL, A. Christian Huygens, 1629–1695. Nature 146, 511–514 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146511a0
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