His father sent Huygens to study law and mathematics at the University of Leiden, where he studied from May 1645 to March 1647. Descartes was impressed by his skills in geometry. In 1644 Huygens had as his mathematical tutor Jan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen, who set the 15-year-old a demanding reading list on contemporary science. His father gave him a liberal education: he studied languages and music, history and geography, mathematics, logic and rhetoric, but also dancing, fencing and horse riding. He liked to play with miniatures of mills and other machines. Huygens was educated at home until turning sixteen years old. His friends included Galileo Galilei, Marin Mersenne and René Descartes. Ĭonstantijn Huygens was a diplomat and advisor to the House of Orange, and also a poet and musician. The couple had five children: Constantijn (1628), Christiaan (1629), Lodewijk (1631), Philips (1632) and Suzanna (1637). She died in 1637, shortly after the birth of Huygens' sister. Christiaan was named after his paternal grandfather. Edelinck, between 16.Ĭhristiaan Huygens was born on 14 April 1629 in The Hague, into a rich and influential Dutch family, the second son of Constantijn Huygens. Cut from the engraving following the painting of Caspar Netscher by G. He published major studies of mechanics and optics, and a pioneer work on games of chance.Ĭhristiaan Huygens. His work included early telescopic studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan, the invention of the pendulum clock and other investigations in timekeeping. Huygens was a leading scientist of his time. He is known particularly as an astronomer, physicist, probabilist and horologist. Christiaan Huygens by Bernard Vaillant, Museum Hofwijck, VoorburgĬhristiaan Huygens, FRS ( / ˈ h aɪ ɡ ən z/ or / ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z/ Dutch: ( listen)) ( Latin: Hugenius) (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician and scientist.
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