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OF all men of science whose lives were passed within the compass of the seventeenth century, none has a more lasting reputation than the Dutch mathematician, natural philosopher, and inventor, Christian Huygens. Born on April 14, 1629, three hundred years ago, at a time when the work of Kepler, Galileo, Napier, Gilbert, and Harvey was slowly gaining acceptance, he lived to read Newton's “Principia,” and during the course of his career saw the rise of experimental science, the erection of famous observatories, and the foundation of our greatest scientific societies, the Royal Society and the Paris Academy of Sciences, of the latter of which he was the first foreign associate.
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Christian Huygens, 1629–95. Nature 123, 575 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123575a0
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