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Huygens: The Man behind the Principle Andriesse, C. D. (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Huygens: The Man behind the Principle
Andriesse, C. D. (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Huygens: The Man behind the Principle is the story of the great seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens (1629–95). This comprehensive biography describes in detail how Huygens arrived at discoveries and inventions that are often wrongly ascribed to Newton.
466 pages, 14 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 25, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521850902 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 476 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 236 × 34 mm · 905 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Miedema, Sally |