FOR many the most fascinating period in the history of science is the second half of the seventeenth century, the time when the foundations for the vast structures of to-day were laid with ...

THE fourth volume of the Huygens correspondence, covering the years 1662-63, is now before us. Although the interval, as regards fresh discoveries by the “Dutch Archimedes,” was a comparatively barren ...

In 1665 Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks, hung from the same wooden structure, will always oscillate in synchronicity. Today, some 350 years on, Eindhoven and Mexican researchers ...

A sketch is given of a way of looking at science. Research is viewed as a complex of cognitive processes with theoretical and experimental sides. A distinction is made between context of discovery and ...

The fact that pairs of moving pendulums can become synchronized was first observed by the great Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens back in the 17th century. But as Jonatan Pena Ramirez and Henk ...

Galileo Galilei's 1610 telescopic observations of Saturn initially revealed features interpreted as two appended moons or lobes. Subsequent observations in 1612 showed the disappearance of these ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Switzerland news every morning. Watchmaking in France has a long and illustrious history. It entered the modern era as long ago as 1675, ...