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Top 10 Remarquable Facts about Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens was born in 1629, in Hague, Netherlands to a poet father, Constantijn Huygens, who was an important diplomat for the Princes of Orange.

Huygens was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor, who is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and a major figure in the scientific revolution.

Founded the wave theory of light discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn and made original contributions to the science of dynamics—the study of the action of forces on bodies.

Let’s look at some remarkable facts about Huygens;

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Huygens is best known for his wave theory of Light

Huygens supported the view that light was transmitted by means of the action of waves in a medium, and not by particles emanating from the source of the illumination.

By this model, he was able to ingeniously explain reflection, refra