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Christiaan Huygens

Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)

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  • An introduction to natural philosophy. Or, Philosophical lectures read in the University of Oxford anno Dom. 1700. To which are added the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens's Theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion / By John Keill ... Translated from the last edition of the Latin.

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  • Christiaan Huygens [Hugenius]. Line engraving by F. Ottens.

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    [Christiaan Huygens correspondence].

    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 | Date: 2008-
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    Introductio ad veram physicam: seu lectiones physicæ habitæ in schola naturalis philosophiæ Academiæ oxoniensis an. Dom. 1700. Quibus accedunt theorematum Hugeniorum de vi centrifuga et motu circulari demonstrationes / Authore Joanne Keill.

    Keill, John, 1671-1721. | Date: 1715
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    Christiani Hugenii, Const. F. de circuli magnitudine inventa. : Accedunt ejusdem Problematum quorundam illustrium constructiones.

    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. | Date: M DC LIV. [1654]
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    Brevis assertio Systematis Saturnii sui, ad serenissimum principem Leopoldum ab Hetruria.

    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. | Date: 1660
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    Opera reliqua. ... / [Christiaan Huygens].

    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. | Date: 1728
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