Huygens links

18 januari 2010

More online information about Huygens in English

• Museum Boerhaave: some items related to Christiaan Huygens.
• Christiaan Huygens: An English biography (with an emphasis on mathematics) on the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (University of St. Andrews).
• Christiaan Huygens: website of Kees Verduin (Leiden University) with an emphasis on probability calculus.
• Huygensmuseum Hofwijck: English website of the Huygensmuseum Hofwijck at Voorburg.
• De Luikerwaal: Website of Henc R.A. de Roo about the magic latern. Christiaan Huygens is regarded as one of its inventors.
• Geometry: The Online Learning Center: More on Christiaan Huygens.

The following websites are devoted to Christiaan Huygens’s contemporaries or to scholarly activities in the 17th century.

• Amsterdams Centrum voor de Studie van de Gouden Eeuw (Universiteit van Amsterdam). In Dutch.
• Starry Messenger: An Online History of Astronomy: (Whipple Museum of the History of Science/Department of History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge).
• The Scientific Revolution: (Robert A. Hatch, University of Florida).
• The Galileo Project: about Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
• Athanasius Kircher Correspondence Project: Online editie of the correspondence of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680).
• The Robert Boyle Project: Website on Robert Boyle (1627-1691).
• Robert Hooke: Website on Robert Hooke (1635-1703).
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: Website on the microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723).
• The Newton Project: Website on Isaac Newton (1642-1727).
• The Online Newton Project: Online editions of Isaac Newton’s main works in het the Burndy Library (Cambridge, USA).
• A Selection of Web and other Internet Sources for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine: (Thomas B. Settle, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence & Polytechnic University, Brooklyn).