The complete online text of Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens.

Though one of the most brilliant scientists in history, Christiaan Huygens enjoyed relatively little fame during his lifetime--primarily because he worked during the period directly after the death of Galileo and just before the ascent of Isaac Newton. A...

Though one of the most brilliant minds in history, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens enjoyed relatively little fame during his lifetime. This was chiefly due to chronological factors, for Huygens worked during the period directly after the death of...

Christiaan Huygens is best known for his work in astronomy and physics, but he also did important work in mathematics. Although he advanced no new theories, Huygens made improvements to existing methods of calculation and applied them to solving problems...

Harvard constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe just got a little less busy. In two letters that appear in the spring issue of the the Green Bag a self-described "entertaining journal of law" (check out their Supreme Court bobbleheads at greenbag.org/ eclectica.htm) Tribe announces that...

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