DUTCH LIGHT

Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygenss remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the story of the birth of modern science as we know it.Europes greatest scientist during the latte r half of the seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A towering figure in the fields of astronomy, optics, mec hanics, and mathematics, many of his innovations in methodology, optics and timekeeping remain in use to this day. Among his many ac hievements,...[Llegir més]