Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695, a prominent Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher. He is known particularly as an astronomer, physicist, probabilist and horologist. He is depicted demonstrating his invention of the pendulum clock in dated 1657. Frieze at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Christiaan Huygens, 1629 – 1695, a prominent Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher. He is known particularly as an astronomer, physicist, probabilist and horologist. He is depicted demonstrating his invention of the pendulum clock in dated 1657. Frieze at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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