Walking with Christiaan Huygens From Archimedes' Influence to Unsung Contributions in Modern Science
Huygens had essentially completed his life’s work by then, building on Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and his own ingenuity. He had established fame as an instrument maker (telescope, pendulum clock, planetarium). He had invented the 31 tone system. He had pioneere...
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2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | History of Physics
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Historical overview of the life of Christiaan Huygens
- Chapter 2. Huygens and spontaneous order
- Chapter 3. Huygens and the speed of light
- Chapter 4. Huygens’ principle
- Chapter 5. Huygens and the telescope
- Chapter 6. Huygens and the clock
- Chapter 7. Huygens-Fresnel principle
- Chapter 8. Huygens and special relativity
- Chapter 9. Huygens and centrifugal force
- Chapter 10 Huygens and curvature
- Chapter 11. What Huygens could have written on diffraction
- Chapter 12. Huygens and geophysics