![]() ![]() ![]() The scholars at Gresham had recently formed the Royal Society Henry Oldenburg (4) was ". he told them about his findings and in particular about the theory of collisions". attended meetings in Gresham College, and met Moray, Wallis, and Oldenburg" (2). In May of that year he was in London " ".to observe the planet Mercury transit over the Sun, using the telescope of Richard Reeve in London, together with astronomer Thomas Streete and Reeve himself" (1). He went to Paris to meet Pascal as " He had been told of recent work in the field by Fermat, Blaise Pascal and Girard Desargues two years earlier" (1). ![]() In 1661 he was already famous: in '55 he had discovered the satellite of Saturn (2), in '56 had invented the pendulum clock and in '57 had written his treatise on probability theory (1). there are numerous indications that Huygens had established all the propositions and their proofs by 1656 at the latest (see the Avertissement in Oeuvres, Vol. He was too meek, he complained only to friends (even his patent was violated in Egland, France etc.) and therefore his great scientific merits are to date under-evaluated: he found the real law behind ' the conservation of momentum', discovered the formula of kinetic energy, the conservation of KE in elastic collisions, suggested the term 'vis viva' to Leibniz and taught him maths and helped him develop 'calculus', even he never believed in its usefulness.ĭuring the years 1650 - 1666 he lived at home, except for three journeys to Paris and London: an allowance supplied by his father enabled him to devote himself completely to the study of natureīetween the years 1652-54, according to his own statements, he developped the theory of collisions in his work (in Latin): "De motu corporum ex percussione" (English translation: Chicago Journals), there is no proof of that, although : ". He was slow to publish his results and discoveries, in the early days his mentor, mathematicians Frans van Schooten was cautious for the sake of his reputation (1), this had the deplorable consequence that his ideas that he naively communicated to his contemporaries were plagiarized. I'll present the original documents, readers can draw their conclusions.Ĭhristiaan Huygens was a good-natured, noble generous man, the son of a diplomat who was an advisor to the House of Orange. The historical truth is there, recorded in accessible documents and original texts, if one wants to look for it and is prepared to accept it, even if may be shocking for English eyes. academic is skeptical: ".I don't know if there's any evidence that he knew of them beforehand." – Ben Crowell This may seem a trivial detail in an answer but it is very important here: he knows that first law wasn't Newton's own (this is sometime acknowledged, though), but he expresses doubts that also third law might not be his own finding, whereas a U.S. "Was it his original finding or was it a restatement of someoneĮlse's, like the first law coming from Galileo?" He then edited the title and the OP text adding: Something like his 1st law, which was a restatement of theĮxperimental findings of Galileo" – Rijul Gupta Oct 26 '13 "The question before this must be whether it was his original or I restored the original title to show how interesting it is that a non-British student (18 at the time) can be more informed than a British physics graduate. ![]()
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