Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695 (Dutch mathematician)
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Apud Doctorem Ruyschium Amsterodami, 24 May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [10]
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Notes from a paediatric anatomy demonstration, that appears to have dealt with certain birth defects. Followed by what appears to be a note about an actuarial problem concerning human senescence; several individuals who have worked on it are named, including Christiaan Huygens. Then follows a diagram of a machine designed by Jan Hudde for descrying a curve of changing slope. Last is a note about a conversation with Hudde about calculating dimensions and focal length of lenses in...
Dates:
24 May 1693
Memoranda et observata in Batavia 1693 Maio, 17 May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [31]
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Batavia is a seventeenth-century cognomen for the Netherlands, to which David Gregory went in the spring of 1693, mostly to talk science with Christiaan Huygens. This document is a list of some books he wished to buy for himself and for friends back home, if he could find them. They covered Palladius, Thucydides, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Erasmus, "all I can find of the Roman Authors at Amst[erdam]", and others. On the reverse is a list of topics he wished to discuss when he finally sat...
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17 May 1693
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