SUMMARY. — There is no doubt that Huygens was convinced of Copernican heliocentricity, since Huygens was Descartes's perceptive disciple, who studied the writings of his mentor with a critical eye. In this article, I do not intend to recount how Huygens progressively became a Copernican. On the contrary, Huygens was probably one of the first to have been a Copernican from the start, in his youth. I examine how he tried to persuade the vast majority of those, who did not agree with him. His choice of arguments tells us something about his contemporaries' reservations. I shall recall how Huygens interacted with Newton. Armed with good Newtonian reflecting telescopes, Huygens explored his Universe from a Copernican standpoint. He carried out a...
SUMMARY. — Christiaan Huygens never undertook a systematic investigation of colours. Nevertheless, h...
It is well known that heliocentrism was proposed in ancient times, at least by Aristarchus of Samos....
Christiaan Huygens's cosmological work 'Cosmotheoros' (1698) has often been neglected by historians ...
SUMMARY. — There is no doubt that Huygens was convinced of Copernican heliocentricity, since Huygens...
Christiaan Huygens, a founding father of modern physics and astronomy, speculated on extraterrestria...
SUMMARY. — Christiaan Huygens' last writings allow light to be shed on the philosophical, epistemolo...
SUMMARY. — Contrary to what is often admitted, Copernicus' cosmology is founded on a particularly fr...
The article focuses on Verisimilia de planetis (1690), which is considered one of the main preparato...
SUMMARY. — Between 1652 and 1669 Christiaan Huygens discoverd the laws that govern the motions that ...
Between the appearance of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus in 1543 and the works of Kepler and Ga...
Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, ...
Our purpose in this article is to examine how Copernicus started the “copernican revolution”, from a...
SUMMARY. — I examine how the heliocentric theory of planetary motion was diffused between 1543, the ...
According to the traditional interpretation, the Copernican revolution, which brought about the tran...
International audienceWhen Kant wrote his General natural history and theory of the sky in 1755 in w...
SUMMARY. — Christiaan Huygens never undertook a systematic investigation of colours. Nevertheless, h...
It is well known that heliocentrism was proposed in ancient times, at least by Aristarchus of Samos....
Christiaan Huygens's cosmological work 'Cosmotheoros' (1698) has often been neglected by historians ...
SUMMARY. — There is no doubt that Huygens was convinced of Copernican heliocentricity, since Huygens...
Christiaan Huygens, a founding father of modern physics and astronomy, speculated on extraterrestria...
SUMMARY. — Christiaan Huygens' last writings allow light to be shed on the philosophical, epistemolo...
SUMMARY. — Contrary to what is often admitted, Copernicus' cosmology is founded on a particularly fr...
The article focuses on Verisimilia de planetis (1690), which is considered one of the main preparato...
SUMMARY. — Between 1652 and 1669 Christiaan Huygens discoverd the laws that govern the motions that ...
Between the appearance of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus in 1543 and the works of Kepler and Ga...
Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, ...
Our purpose in this article is to examine how Copernicus started the “copernican revolution”, from a...
SUMMARY. — I examine how the heliocentric theory of planetary motion was diffused between 1543, the ...
According to the traditional interpretation, the Copernican revolution, which brought about the tran...
International audienceWhen Kant wrote his General natural history and theory of the sky in 1755 in w...
SUMMARY. — Christiaan Huygens never undertook a systematic investigation of colours. Nevertheless, h...
It is well known that heliocentrism was proposed in ancient times, at least by Aristarchus of Samos....
Christiaan Huygens's cosmological work 'Cosmotheoros' (1698) has often been neglected by historians ...