Huygens

2005 biography detailing the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695).

Zusammenfassung
Huygens: The Man behind the Principle is the story of the great seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens (162995). This comprehensive biography describes in detail how Huygens arrived at discoveries and inventions that are often wrongly ascribed to Newton.

Inhalt

Preface; A commemoration; 1. Titan; 2. Father; 3. Mother; 4. Family portrait; 5. Student; 6. Collisions; 7. Saturn; 8. Force; 9. Temperament; 10. Weight; 11. Crisis; 12. Light; 13. Dismissal; 14. Orphan; 15. Heaven; References; Bibliography; Further reading.