Simon Ings

Christiaan Huygens – hero of time and space

Inventing the pendulum clock and discovering Saturn’s rings were just some of the 17th-century Dutch scientist’s achievements, says Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Christaan Huygens. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 19 December 2020

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