Christiaan Huygens

spring drive clock was the first machine to standardize time throughout the world, and it set a basis to make times and dates.The spring drive clock was a small, useful item in households, and was used as a pocket clock.The spring driven clock was the first clock invented, and it was a small and portable clock. One of the most famous inventors named Galileo made many improvements on clocks. Galileo during the early 1600’s created a weight that was suspended from a point in which the weight swings back and force, due to gravity (Wallace).The pendulum was an advancement to the clock, and improved the sppring driven clock. Due to Galileo’s death, the pendulum was never invented, so Christiaan finished the invention the pendulum.Galileo was the first to experiment with the pendulum clock, and Christiaan Huygens finished his work,building the first pendulum clock, which was able to count minutes, and seconds.. Another inventor, by the name of Bürgi invented the cross-beat or double-verge escapement, be using several experiments using a combination of weight and spring-driven clock. His final product was a spring-driven clock for a lord called Rudolf II in 1604, it had dials for hours, minutes, and seconds. After the pendulum’s invention, many other inventors wanted to improve on the first clocks, like the spring and weight driven clock. The shift of the many different kinds of clocks went from weight-driven, which was used in the Middle Ages, then spring-driven, and a steady…

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch mathematician and scientist, lived from April 14, 1629 – July 8, 1695. He was one of the leading scientists of his time and is best known as an astronomer, physicist, proabablist, and horologist. His contributions to experimental and theoretical physics were most notably the discovery of Titan, invention of the first pendulum clock, and the earliest theory about the nature of light. His great contributions are of great significance and so he deserves to be chosen…

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch Mathematician and Scientist in the late 17th century. It becomes difficult at this stage to be any more specific than that, as his achievements are in fields so varied and so far-reaching that the only description of him that fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in…

largest gap between Saturn’s rings. The gap was called the “Cassini Division”. The other part of the orbiter called the Huygens was named after Christiaan Huygens. He was a Dutch astronomer who found the Titan (Saturn’s largest moon) in 1655. The purpose of the Huygens was to parachute off of the Cassini orbiter and go explore and send information about the Titan to all of the space agencies. This long-lasting orbiter has had 3 overall missions/extensions. The first extension is…

Astronomer Giovanni Cassini Astronomer Giovanni Cassini is the scientist I chose because he discovered the moons of my favorite planet. He is associated with many amazing astronomical discoveries, including the first observations of Saturn's moons. For this reason, the Cassini spacecraft was named after him. It was launched in 1997 and plunged into the planet in 2017. Born on June 8, 1625, in Perinaldo, Republic of Genoa (now Italy), he was given the name Giovanni Domenico by his parents, Jacopo…

Since the launch of Cassini in 1997, its images have fascinated people and scientists with their beauty and complexity. For its latest mission, the best choice for Cassini's camera is Jupiter and its orbit. This is because it has been 25 years since a photo of Jupiter like this has been taken so this picture will provide valuable information to exoplanet researchers by showing us how planets with atmospheres look from one billion miles away. One of the reasons why Cassini should take this…

Titan was discovered by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1665. Huygens was born in 1629 to a wealthy Dutch family. As a boy Huygens showed great promise in mathematics and in 1645 enrolled the University of Leiden. After discovering the law of refraction, Huygens developed a new telescope and began to study Saturn’s rings in 1655. Ten years later he discovered a large object on Saturn’s outer ring, which he dubbed Titan. Though Huygens died in 1695 his legacy endures as Titan stands as a…

evidences of life. With net expenditure of approximately three billion dollars, the Cassini-Huygens space mission to Saturn system was a joint assignment among finest space agencies; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency/Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI). The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was named after two celebrated scientists for their early contributions in understanding Saturn, a planet which we…

Saturn By: Natalie James Saturn is one of the farthest planets from the sun, being the sixth. After being first spotted in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, Saturn was named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture, Saturnus. The most common nickname for this gas giant is “The Ringed Planet”, for the large rings surrounding it that Saturn is famed for. Originally the Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei, thought that Saturn was triple bodied, but in 1658 Dutch astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, using a…

Galileo was an astronomer, physicist, and philosopher who played a big role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. And also created an improved telescope to study the stars. One of his achievements was discovering four new “stars” orbiting Jupiter and the phases of Venus. In 1609 he built his first telescope improving the Dutch telescope, and made other observations about the moon’s surface other stars in the Milky Way. The four new moons were called Callisto, Europa,…