- also /ˈhɔɪɡənz/ HOY-gənz; Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɦœyɣə(n)s] ; also
spelled Huyghens; Latin: Hugenius; 14
April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a
Dutch mathematician...
- in him by the Viceroy, Jan
Huyghens meticulously copied the top-secret
charts page-by-page. Even more crucially, Jan
Huyghens provided nautical data like...
- Guy
Huyghens (born 16
February 1933) is a
Belgian field hockey player. He
competed in the men's
tournament at the 1960
Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary;...
- The Huygens–Fresnel
principle (named
after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and
French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel)
states that
every point on a...
- Sir
Constantijn Huygens, Lord of
Zuilichem (/ˈhaɪɡənz/ HY-gənz, US also /ˈhɔɪɡənz/ HOY-gənz, Dutch: [ˈkɔnstɑntɛin ˈɦœyɣə(n)s]; 4
September 1596 – 28 March...
- D. Frei João
Vicente da Fonseca, the
younger Huyghen was
appointed Secretary to the Archbishop.
Huyghen sailed for Goa on 8
April 1583,
arriving five...
- From 1916 to 1920, the
Salle Huyghens located at 6 rue
Huyghens [fr] in the 14th arrondis****t of Paris, was the name
given to the
studio of
painter Émile...
- to and
inspired by the
Velvet Underground track,
Venus in furs. Marc A.
Huyghens - Vocals,
acoustic and
slide guitars, mandolin, banjo,
electric piano,...
-
hashish was
consumed as an
edible in the
Muslim world. In 1596,
Dutchman Jan
Huyghen van
Linschoten spent three pages on "Bangue" (bhang) in his
historic work...
- themselves. Further, a
number of
Dutch merchants and explorers, such as Jan
Huyghen van
Linschoten and
Cornelis de Houtman, went on to
obtain firsthand knowledge...
