Dutch Light (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
384
Utgivningsdatum
2020-09-03
Förlag
Pan MacMillan
Illustratör/Fotograf
16pp colour plates and b, w throughout
Illustrationer
16pp colour plates and b/w throughout
Dimensioner
234 x 153 x 31 mm
Vikt
631 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781509893331

Dutch Light

Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

av Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Häftad,  Engelska, 2020-09-03
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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. Filled with incident, discovery and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of 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.
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