Interview with Hugh Aldersey-Williams on Christiaan Huygens

In this episode of Travels Through Time the author and journalist Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes us back to 1655 and the vibrant heart of the Dutch Golden Age to meet Christiaan Huygens, a figure oddly forgotten by us today but who was once venerated as the greatest mathematician, astronomer and physicist of his age.

Hugh takes us back to the year 1655 to see Christiaan make his thrilling discovery of one of Saturn's moons, to watch him struggle with the mathematical problem of pendular motion and to follow him as he enters Paris - the city he would come to love - for the very first time.

Much much more about the scenes, characters and materials discussed in this conversation can be found at www.tttpodcast.com

To learn more about Christiaan Huygens, check out Hugh Aldersey-Williams's book: Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the making of science in Europe.

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