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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Huygens and Hofwijck: The Inventive World of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens

Huygens and Hofwijck: The Inventive World of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens

Boers, Henk
Leer, Kees Van Der

Hardcover

Historical FiguresMedieval & Renaissance HistoryLandscaping

ISBN10: 9463722297
ISBN13: 9789463722292
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 21 2022
Pages: 232
Weight: 2.60
Height: 0.88 Width: 9.30 Depth: 11.27
Language: English
Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to three princes of Orange for 62 years. Hofwijck was also the place where Constantijn's son Christiaan spent a significant part of his life. Christiaan Huygens was a member of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and became one of the greatest inventors and scientists. At the end of his life, at Hofwijck, he wrote Cosmotheoros, his magnum opus on the universe. At Huygens's Hofwijck we look at the seventeenth century through the eyes of these two versatile men. With Constantijn and Christiaan, the story is about literature, art, music, politics, the House of Orange, science and life at a seventeenth-century country estate.

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