Christiaan Huygens
1629–1695 · Person
Dutch polymath; invented pendulum clock; first to identify Saturn's rings; wave theory of light.
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More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
Around 1629
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)