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1629, Apr 141649-16931695, Jul 8
a prominent Dutch mathematician, scientist, astronomer, physicist, probabilist and horologist. 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.
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08/13/1642-Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap 
03/25/1655-Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, Saturn's largest moon
10/04/1675-Christiaan Huygens patents pocket watch
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Constantijn Huygens
...William II of Orange, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. He became friends with John Donne, and translated...
Constantijn Huygens Jr.
...(sometimes in conjunction with his younger brother Christiaan Huygens). But, he was also a chronicler of his times, revealing...
Denis Papin
...medical degree in 1669. In 1673, while working with Christiaan Huygens and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in Paris, he became...
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Christiaan Huygens1629, Apr 141649
 
16931695, Jul 8
Godefroy Wendelin1580, Jun 61599
 
16521667, Oct 24
 a Flemish astronomer. The crater Vendelinus on the Moon is named after him. Around 1630 he measur...
Pierre Gassendi1592, Jan 221617
 
16531655, Oct 24
 a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po...
Muhammad Salih Tahtawiunknown1659
 
 
1660unknown
 a Mughal metallurgist, astronomer, geometer and craftsman, was born and raised in Thatta, Sindh ...
Ismael Bullialdus1605, Sep 281632
 
16671694, Nov 25
 a famous astronomer and mathematician during the seventeenth century. He published several books,...
Adrien Auzout1622, Jan 281640
 
16691691, May 23
 a French astronomer. Auzout made contributions in telescope observations, including perfecting th...
Giovanni Battista Riccioli1598, Apr 171628
 
16711671, Jun 25
 an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things,...
George Hartgillunknown1590
 
168unknown
 an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k...
Johannes Hevelius1611, Jan 281630
 
16831687, Jan 28
 an astronomer he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography" and described ten new c...
Giovanni Cassini1625, Jun 81648
 
16831712, Sep 14
 an Italian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer, born in Perinaldo, known for his w...
Christoph Arnold1650, Dec 171683
 
 
16921695, Apr 15
 a German amateur astronomer. Born in Sommerfeld near Leipzig, Arnold was a farmer by profession. ...
Ole Christensen Romer1644, Sep 251662
 
17101710, Sep 19
 a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. I...
John Flamsteed1646, Aug 191662
 
17191719, Dec 31
 an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation ...
Maria Margarethe Kirch1670, Feb 251690
 
17191720, Dec 29
 a German astronomer, and one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writings on...
Isaac Newton1642, Dec 251665
 
17261726, Mar 20
 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ...
Jacques d'Allonville1671, Jul 141692
 
17281732, Sep 10
 an astronomer and mathematician. He concluded in his measurements taken during his stay in Marsei...
Edmond Halley1656, Nov 81675
 
17421742, Jan 14
 an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best know...
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