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The brilliant Christiaan Huygens needed glasses

He was perhaps the greatest Dutch scientist ever. Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) made important contributions to mathematics and physics, inventing the pendulum clock, discovering Saturn’s moon Titan and explaining why the planet looked so strange through a telescope. Saturn did not have handles, as Galileo thought, for example. According to Huygens, this was a ring. Together […]

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