Christiaan Huygens
1629–1695 · Netherlands
🌍 View on the globeInventions and discoveries · 7
- 1638-1640Screw micrometerScientific instrument · inventor
- 1654Probability theory (problem of points)Theorem, law or theory · author
- 1655-1659Saturn's ring and TitanDiscovery · discoverer
- 1656Pendulum clockInvention or technique · inventor
- 1659Magic lanternInvention or technique · inventor
- 1675Balance spring (hairspring)Invention or technique · inventor
- 1678-1690Wave theory of light and Huygens' principleTheorem, law or theory · author