![]() As well as conducting full-text searches, mapping and graphing the metadata, and extracting people mentioned, the ePistolarium is capable of interrogating the entire corpus to analyse and visualize co-citation networks, and produces the results of keyword extraction and experimental topic-modelling.ĬKCC’s 20,020 records represent the largest single dataset contributed to EMLO during the second phase of Cultures of Knowledge. In 2013, this material was published as open access in a sophisticated web application - the ePistolarium - which provides scholars with multiple means of exploring and analysing both metadata and full texts across all nine correspondences. The project began by digitizing the metadata and curating existing full-text transcriptions of c.20,000 letters to or from nine prominent intellectuals resident in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. The Circulation of Knowledge project was established in 2008 as a partnership between the Descartes Centre at the University of Utrecht, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Huygens ING), the Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His final years were spent in The Hague, where he died on 8 July 1695 (N.S.). His father Constantijn died in 1687 and, with his brother already in England, Christiaan travelled to London in 1689 where he renewed his acquaintance with Boyle and met new figures in the Royal Society, including Isaac Newton. In subsequent years, Huygens worked closely on questions of the dynamics of bodies with men such as Papin and Tschirnhaus. In 1676 a further bout of illness caused him to leave Paris once more, but two years later he returned and in that same year his Traité de la lumiere - in which he argued for a wave theory of light - was published.įollowing continued periods of ill health in 16, Christiaan left Paris for good and the early 1680s saw him at work on a new marine clock. After his arrival in the French capital, he took up residence in the Bibliothèque de roi, where the Académie was also based. Illness caused him to leave Paris temporarily in 1670, but the following year he returned from Holland and, in 1672, met Leibniz it was from Huygens that the young German philosopher learnt much of his mathematics. In 1666, Christiaan Huygens accepted an invitation from Colbert to become a salaried member of the new Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris. Numerous visits both to Paris and to London are recorded during the 1650s and 1660s. From 1654, he began to work on the construction of microscopes and telescopes. Christiaan continued his legal studies at the Collegium Auriacum in Breda from 1647–9 before, in 1649, travelling to Denmark as a member of a diplomatic mission and, soon thereafter, visiting Rome. Educated from home by his father and by tutors, he enrolled at the University of Leiden in 1645 to study mathematics and law where his teacher and sometime private tutor in the mathematical sciences was Frans van Schooten. The second son of Constantijn Huygens and Suzanna van Baerle, Christiaan was born in The Hague in 1629. ( Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) Christiaan Huygens, by Jacques Antoine Friquet de Vauroze.
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