father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Constantijn Huygens was born in The Hague, the second son of Christiaan Huygens (senior), secretary of the Council...

Constantijn Huygens Jr., Lord of Zuilichem (10 March 1628 – October 1697), was a Dutch statesman and poet, mostly known for his work on scientific instruments...

polymath Christiaan Huygens. Notable people with the surname include: Jan Huygen (1563–1611), Dutch voyager and historian Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), Dutch...

private tutor to Huygens and his elder brother, Constantijn Jr., replacing Stampioen on the advice of Descartes. Van Schooten brought Huygens's mathematical...

from there, for sale as toys or curiosities. The Dutch scientist Constantijn Huygens asked Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle to investigate the...

The Constantijn Huygens Prize (Dutch: Constantijn Huygens-prijs) is a Dutch literary award. Since 1947, it has been awarded each year for an author's...

Vitaulium in Latin) is a mansion built for 17th-century politician Constantijn Huygens. It is located in Voorburg on the Vliet canal from The Hague to Leiden...

written as a close collaboration with her husband, Constantijn Huygens. While Constantijn Huygens is often credited as the sole author of Dagh-werck,...

Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist Christiaan Huygens and his brother Constantijn Huygens, Jr., though it is not clear if they actually invented...

is thought to have sold one to Dutch poet, composer and diplomat Constantijn Huygens in 1622, while the oldest known clear description of a box-type camera...

Holland has always been immense. A versatile poet was the diplomat Sir Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), perhaps best known for his witty epigrams. He threw...

his advancements in telescope technology, Huygens, with the help of his elder brother Constantijn Huygens Jr., began building telescopes around 1650...

Daley, Koos (1990). The Triple Fool: A Critical Evaluation of Constantijn Huygens' Translations of John Donne. De Graaf. p. 58. ISBN 978-90-6004-405-6...

Nierop's knowledge that he even brought him to the attention of Constantijn Huygens and Frans van Schooten. Christia Mercer suggested that Descartes...

figure of the Muiderkring was the poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft; Constantijn Huygens, Dirck Sweelinck, Vondel, Bredero and the poet sisters Anna Visscher...

Hooghe (1541-1583) illegitimate son of Emperor Charles V, engraver Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. Kane (1998–2014)...

IV, former reigning Duke of Lorraine. She was a correspondent of Constantijn Huygens. She was the second child and first daughter of Claude-François de...

painting in 1628. In 1629, Rembrandt was discovered by the statesman Constantijn Huygens who procured for Rembrandt important commissions from the court of...

successful rear-guard action. The Dutch secretary of King William, Constantijn Huygens Jr., has given a good description (in Dutch) of the battle and its...

his insights on geometric optics. At the age of 20, the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens read Aguilon's and was enthralled by it. He later said that it was...

the painting is one of Rembrandt's earliest works. Around 1630, Constantijn Huygens wrote an analysis of the figure of Judas in it, arguing that Rembrandt...

current patron of a few commissioned paintings, via its secretary Constantijn Huygens, as an excuse for the delay of the commissioned Passion paintings...

April 23 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (died 1704) Constantijn Huygens, Dutch statesman and telescope maker (died 1697) June 8 – Rudolph...

except that the monk is allegedly a miracle-maker. The Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens wrote a Costly Folly (1622) centered on a subject who "fears everything...

Thomas de Keyser, Portrait of Constantijn Huygens with his Secretary, 1627...

principle is known as the Huygens–Fresnel principle. As an astronomer, Huygens began grinding lenses with his brother Constantijn jr. to build telescopes...

poet, composer, and diplomat Constantijn Huygens who used it to paint and recommended it to his artist friends. Huygens wrote to his parents (translated...

entourage of the Stuarts in The Hague, and was known as the 'muse' of Constantijn Huygens. Utricia Ogle was a daughter of the 'one-eyed Englishman named ridder...

died in 1631, Constantijn Huygens asked for Schurman's hand in marriage and wrote 10 poems in three languages to her in 1634. Huygens was teased by other...

found in the papers of his friend Constantijn Huygens, father of the likely inventor of the magic lantern Christiaan Huygens. In 1612 Italian mathematician...