Christiaan Huygens
1629 to 1695
12 documented presences
8 places
Quo Fuit places 12 dated presences for Christiaan Huygens across 8 places, from 1629 to 1695. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Christiaan Huygens was documented, and when
14 April 1629exact date
The Hagueattested
“Christiaan Huygens was born into a wealthy, influential Dutch family in The Hague on 14 April 1629, the second son of Constantijn Huygens.”
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May 1645month
Leidenattested
“At sixteen years of age, Constantijn sent Huygens to study law and mathematics at Leiden University, where he enrolled from May 1645 to March 1647.”
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March 1647month
Bredaattested
“After two years, starting in March 1647, Huygens continued his studies at the newly founded Orange College, in Breda, where his father was a curator.”
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August 1649month
Bredaattested
“Huygens left Breda after completing his studies in August 1649 and had a stint as a diplomat on a mission with Henry, Duke of Nassau.”
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1655year
Parisattested
“Huygens became interested in games of chance after he visited Paris in 1655 and encountered the work of Fermat, Blaise Pascal and Girard Desargues years earlier.”
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1661year
Englandattested
“Already in his first visit to England in 1661, Huygens had learnt about Boyle's air pump experiments during a meeting at Gresham College.”
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1670year
Royal Societyattested
“His relationship with the French Académie was not always easy, and in 1670 Huygens, seriously ill, chose Francis Vernon to carry out a donation of his papers to the Royal Society in London should he die.”
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1673 to 1676period
Londonattested
“Leibniz was working on a calculating machine at the time and, after a short visit to London in early 1673, he was tutored in mathematics by Huygens until 1676.”
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1681year
The Hagueattested
“Huygens moved back to The Hague in 1681 after suffering another bout of serious depressive illness.”
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1685year
Franceattested
“He attempted to return to France in 1685 but the revocation of the Edict of Nantes precluded this move.”
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12 June 1689exact date
Englandattested
“On his third visit to England, Huygens met Newton in person on 12 June 1689.”
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8 July 1695exact date
The Hagueattested
“Two years later, on 8 July 1695, Huygens died in The Hague and was buried, like his father before him, in an unmarked grave at the Grote Kerk.”
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Places Christiaan Huygens is documented in
The Hague3 presences · 1629 to 1695England2 presences · 1661 to 1689
Breda2 presences · 1647 to 1649
France1 presence · 1685Leiden1 presence · 1645London1 presence · 1673Paris1 presence · 1655Royal Society1 presence · 1670
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1646year
Leidenmentioned
“In 1646, while still a college student at Leiden, he began a correspondence with his father's friend, Marin Mersenne, who died soon afterwards in 1648.”
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1648year
Francementioned
“Subsequently, Huygens developed a broad range of correspondents, though with some difficulty after 1648 due to the five-year Fronde in France.”
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1651year
Leidenmentioned
“Huygens's first publication was Theoremata de Quadratura Hyperboles, Ellipsis et Circuli (Theorems on the quadrature of the hyperbola, ellipse, and circle), published by the Elzeviers in Leiden in 1651.”
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1654year
The Haguementioned
“In 1654, Huygens returned to his father's house in The Hague and was able to devote himself entirely to research.”
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1657year
Leidenmentioned
“The oldest known Huygens-style pendulum clock is dated 1657 and can be seen at the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden.”
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1658year
Rotterdammentioned
“Pierre Séguier refused him any French rights, while Simon Douw in Rotterdam and Ahasuerus Fromanteel in London copied his design in 1658.”
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1658year
Londonmentioned
“Pierre Séguier refused him any French rights, while Simon Douw in Rotterdam and Ahasuerus Fromanteel in London copied his design in 1658.”
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1660year
Spainmentioned
“In 1660, Lodewijk Huygens made a trial on a voyage to Spain, and reported that heavy weather made the clock useless.”
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3 May 1661exact date
Londonmentioned
“On 3 May 1661, Huygens, together with astronomer Thomas Streete and Richard Reeve, observed the planet Mercury transit over the Sun using Reeve's telescope in London.”
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1663year
Parismentioned
“He visited Paris a third time in 1663; when the Montmor Academy closed down the next year, Huygens advocated for a more Baconian program in science.”
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1666year
Parismentioned
“Two years later, in 1666, he moved to Paris on an invitation to fill a leadership position at King Louis XIV's new French Académie des sciences.”
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1667 to 1668period
Royal Societymentioned
“The war ended in 1667, and Huygens announced his results to the Royal Society in 1668.”
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1672year
Parismentioned
“The young diplomat Leibniz met Huygens while visiting Paris in 1672 on a vain mission to meet the French Foreign Minister Arnauld de Pomponne.”
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1672year
Icelandmentioned
“Huygens had experimented in 1672 with double refraction (birefringence) in the Iceland spar (a calcite), a phenomenon discovered in 1669 by Rasmus Bartholin.”
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1678year
1686year
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