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The oldest known document concerning the magic lantern is a page on which Christiaan Huygens made ten small sketches of a skeleton taking off its skull, above which he wrote "for representations by means of convex glasses with the lamp" (translated from French).
Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, FRS (/ ˈ h aɪ ɡ ən z / HY-gənz, [2] US also / ˈ h ɔɪ ɡ ən z / HOY-gənz; [3] Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɦœyɣə(n)s] ⓘ; also spelled Huyghens; Latin: Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.
Interpretation of Robertson's Fantasmagorie from F. Marion's L'Optique (1867). Phantasmagoria (American pronunciation ⓘ), alternatively fantasmagorie and/or fantasmagoria, was a form of horror theatre that (among other techniques) used one or more magic lanterns to project frightening images – such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts – typically using rear projection onto a semi-transparent ...
Bangeman Huygens was the son of Willem Vincent Bangeman, a merchant in the Dutch East India Company, and Catharina Constantia Huygens (whose surname he in 1781 added to that of his father [1]). He became a partisan of the Patriot faction , but was nevertheless sent out in 1793 with the last envoy of the Dutch Republic to Denmark, Jacob Fagel as ...
A 1682 demonstration of Huygens gunpowder engine, where a dram of gunpowder creates enough vacuum to lift 8 boys into the air. Huygens, however, became interested in the mechanical power of the vacuum, and the possibility of using gunpowder to produce one. In 1678 he outlined a gunpowder engine consisting of a vertical tube containing a piston ...
Discoveries by Christiaan Huygens — astronomy discoveries by the notable 17th-century Dutch Republic astronomer. Pages in category "Discoveries by Christiaan Huygens" This category contains only the following page.
Pages in category "Christiaan Huygens" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Original pendulum clock by S. Coster, after Huygens' design (1657). Salomon Coster (c. 1620–1659) was a Dutch clockmaker of the Hague, who in 1657 was the first to make a pendulum clock, which had been invented by Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695). [1] [2] Coster died a sudden death in 1659.