Christiaan Huygens, Dutch Mathematicianand Scientist (1629-1695)

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• Name: Christiaan Huygens
• Birth: April 14, 1629, The Hague, Netherlands
• Death: July 8, 1695, The Hague, Netherlands
• Languages: Latin, French, Dutch
• Who he was: Dutch mathematician and scientist known as an astronomer and physicist, among other things. He discovered Saturn's moon, Titan, and invented the pendulum clock. He was a proponent of the wave theory of light, and the Treatise on Light is one of his major works.
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