Walking with Christiaan Huygens
From Archimedes' Influence to Unsung Contributions in Modern Science
Springer
ISBN 978-3-031-46157-6
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Buch. Hardcover
2024
102 s/w-Abbildungen, 56 Farbabbildungen.
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: xxxi, 315 S.
Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,5 cm
Verlag: Springer
ISBN: 978-3-031-46157-6
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In 1689, Huygens visited Newton. Together, they walked the streets of London. Newton had recently finished his masterpiece, Principia, expounding his laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation. Huygens had essentially completed his life’s work by then, building on Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and his own ingenuity. He had established fame as an instrument maker (telescope, pendulum clock, planetarium). He had invented the 31 tone system. He had pioneered the first principles of remote sensing. He had discovered the rings of Saturn. He had formulated the wave theory of light. What would walking with Christiaan reveal? This book gives the result in nine chapters, namely: spontaneous order, the speed of light, Huygens’ principle, the telescope, the pendulum clock, Huygens-Fresnel principle, special relativity, centrifugal force, and curvature. In addition, there is a chapter titled What Huygens could have written on diffraction, and a chapter titled Huygens and Geophysics. Mentally walking with Christiaan, browsing his collected works — a true treasure trove for puzzle enthusiasts — and rethinking his ideas creates a vivid impression of scientific life in the 17th century, an appreciation that it is remarkably similar to ours, and an understanding of Huygens' significant and lasting contributions to science.
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Puts the contributions of Huygens to modern science in an up-to-date context Addresses the mystery why Huygens did not consider diffraction, although he had the unique tools to study it Highlights the importance of Huygens’ principle for wave propagation in all branches
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