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It is told, perhaps apocryphally, that Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) dropped a stone into the canal next to his house when he was still a boy.
There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.
— Christiaan Huygens Cosmotheoros
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Moser, T.J., Robinson, E.A. (2024). Historical Overview of the Life of Christiaan Huygens. In: Walking with Christiaan Huygens. History of Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46158-3_1
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