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Huygens

noun
1.
Dutch physicist who first formulated the wave theory of light (1629-1695).  Synonyms: Christiaan Huygens, Christian Huygens.



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... Leyden, 1690. Complete works were published at The Hague in 1888, under thetit le Ouvres completes, by the Societe Hollandaise des Sciences. These books have not been translated into English. Huygens's famous paper on the laws governing the collision of elastic bodies appeared in the Phil. Trans, of the Royal Society ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams


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