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{{short description|1673 book on pendular motion by Christiaan Huygens}} | author = [[Christiaan Huygens]] ...

...by [[Erasmus Bartholin]] in 1669. was initially explained by [[Christiaan Huygens]] using a wave theory of light. The explanation was a centerpiece of his '' ...rax]] and [[mica]], were identified as biaxial. Explaining this was beyond Huygens' theory.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=O'Hara |first=J. G. |date=1982 ...

...ny state of motion, classical mechanics assumes the existence of a special family of [[frame of reference|reference frames]] in which the mechanical laws of ...ing-time/1427509C7A14C464B08209322E42ABB6|title=Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature|date=1988|publisher=Cambridge University ...

...n general are powerful tools for detecting burst errors, we now consider a family of binary cyclic codes named Fire Codes, which possess good single burst er ...bb{F}_{2^8}</math>. This code was employed by [[NASA]] in their [[Cassini-Huygens]] spacecraft.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/saturn/qa/cassi ...

...e Earth and Pluto. Objects in such a system may be part of a [[collisional family]] and this origin may be verified comparing their [[orbital elements]] and The first suggestion of a ring system was in 1655, when [[Christiaan Huygens]] thought that Saturn was surrounded by rings.<ref name="ff.saturn"/> ...

...ge man,<ref group="Note">just under 2 metres in today's units</ref> from a family of body measures called ''fathoms'', originally used among other things, to In 1656, Dutch scientist [[Christiaan Huygens]] invented the pendulum clock, with its pendulum marking the seconds. This ...

...by [[Andrea Amati]] being the earliest known bass instrument of the violin family to survive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://collections.nmmusd.org/Cellos/Amati/A ...309 in an inn called "Huis ter Beurze". The inn belonged to the Ter Bourse family, merchants of possible (if not likely) Venetian origin (della Borsa), who c ...

...cs | author=Arthur Erich Haas | year=1928}}</ref> named after [[Christiaan Huygens]] and [[Jakob Steiner]], can be used to determine the [[moment of inertia]] * '''[[Saturn (rocket family)]]''' – ...

...light placed around the heads of saints, angels and members of the [[Holy Family]]. In Fra Angelico's ''The Annunciation'', in addition to the halo, the art ...s and [[Isaac Newton|Newton]]; and the wave theory, defended by Christiaan Huygens, Thomas Young and Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Later, James Clerk Maxwell present ...

...st [[generation (particle physics)|generation]] of the [[lepton]] particle family,<ref name="curtis74"> ...ifferent points mutually interfere.<ref name="MathPages">{{cite web |title=Huygens' Principle |website=MathPages |url=https://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath242/ ...

...h|last3=Bekar |first3=Clifford|chapter=Historical Record on the Control of Family Size|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSrGTMtBv50C&pg=PA335|pa ...'[https://books.google.com/books?id=ScORNbV0E8wC&pg=PA1 Cassini at Saturn: Huygens results]''". p.1. {{ISBN|0-387-26129-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ptolem ...