Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch astronomer — as well as a physicist, inventor, mathematician, engineer, and more. As far as his astronomical achievements, he ground lenses for refracting telescopes, invented a better eyepiece (one with two lenses) than those available at the time, and was the first to correctly identify the nature of Saturn’s rings.Continue reading “April 14, 1629: The birth of Christaan Huygens”
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