Christiaan Huygens was born on April 14, 1629, he was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer,
physicist and horologist. His work included early telescopic studies
elucidating the nature of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping, and studies of both optics and the centrifugal force.Huygens achieved note for his argument that light consists of waves,now known as the Huygens-Fresnel principles.
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