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Birth Day
Born April 14, 1629 at Hague in the Netherlands
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Discoveries
He turned his telescopes towards the planet Saturn and he found out that Saturn is a ringed planet. -
Trips
Huygens for the first time visited Paris, where his distinguished parentage, wealth, and affable disposition gave him entry to the highest intellectual and social circles. -
Meeting people
He met Blaise Pascal in Paris with who he had already been in correspondence on mathematical problems. -
School
He was elected a member of the royal society, a newley formed scientific academy
He studied at home under private totors, he studied law and mathmatics at the university of leide and then at the collage of orange at breda -
Inventions
Other inventions by Huygens included his design of an internal combustion engine that ran off of gun powder, although he never actually built it. Huygens also reconstructed the components of wrist watches, making them less bulky. Huygens invented the first pendulum clock with an error of less than one minuet a day. Huygens theory about light was rejected by Isaac Newton. He developed the first compound eye piece for a telescope using multiple lenses. -
3 telescopes
Huygens also built three telescopes with focal lengths of 123 feet, 180 feet, and 210 feet which were later presented to the royals society. -
Death Date
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Credit
The European space agency named a large moon orbiting the planet. -
Recorce
Space.com Christiaan Huygens Biography