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The seventeenth century saw the rise of modern science, notably with the work of René Descartes, Galileo Galilei, Christiaan Huygens, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz. Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637) was a Dutch scientist who is not well known today because he did not publish his ideas.
I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years, Driv’n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow mov’d; in which the world, And all her train were hurl’d.
— Henry Vaughan (1621–1695), The World
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Moser, T.J., Robinson, E.A. (2024). Huygens and the Speed of Light. In: Walking with Christiaan Huygens. History of Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46158-3_3
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