Dutch light
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age – a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.
'At last – a scintillating biography of Christiaan Huygens . . . Hugh Aldersley-Williams has evocatively illuminated this brilliant polymath who laid the foundations of modern European science.'
Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
'Fascinating . . . an impressive piece of scholarship. I learned a lot.'
John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things and In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens’s remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the story of the birth of modern science as we know it.
Europe’s greatest scientist during the latter half of the seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A towering figure in the fields of astronomy, optics, mechanics, and mathematics, many of his innovations in methodology, optics and timekeeping remain in use to this day. Among his many achievements, he developed the theory of light travelling as a wave, invented the mechanism for the pendulum clock, and discovered the rings of Saturn – via a telescope that he had also invented.
A man of fashion and culture, Christiaan came from a family of multi-talented individuals whose circle included not only leading figures of Dutch society, but also artists and philosophers such as Rembrandt, Locke and Descartes. The Huygens family and their contemporaries would become key actors in the Dutch Golden Age, a time of unprecedented intellectual expansion within the Netherlands. Set against a backdrop of worldwide religious and political turmoil, this febrile period was defined by danger, luxury and leisure, but also curiosity, purpose, and tremendous possibility.
Following in Huygens’s footsteps as he navigates this era while shuttling opportunistically between countries and scientific disciplines, Hugh Aldersey-Williams builds a compelling case to reclaim Huygens from the margins of history and acknowledge him as one of our most important and influential scientific figures.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 03 september 2020
Aantal pagina's: 560
Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador
Originele titel: Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
AI-gegenereerd: Nee
Dyslexievriendelijk: Nee
Editie: Air Iri OME edition
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 153 mm
Product hoogte: 40 mm
Product lengte: 234 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 153 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 47 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 717 g
eWaste: Nee
EAN: 9781509893331