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Author:        Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Uniform Title: Kosmotheeoros. English
Title:         The celestial worlds discover'd: or, Conjectures
                  concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions
                  of the worlds in the planets. Written in Latin by
                  Christianvs Hvygens, and inscrib'd to his brother
                  Constantine Hvygens ...
Published:     London, Printed for T. Childe, 1698.
Description:   vi, 160 p. 5 pl. (4 fold.) 18 cm.
LC Call No.:   QB41 .H85 1698
Notes:         Translation of Kosmotheoros; sive, De terris
                  coelestibus earumque ornatu conjecturae.
Subjects:      Plurality of worlds -- Early works to 1800.
Control No.:   05021651 //r86



Author:        Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Title:         Christiani Hugenii Zuilichemii, dum viveret Zelhemii
                  toparchae, opuscula posthuma ...
Published:     Amstelodami, apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1728.
Description:   2 v. in 1. fold. plates, fold. diagrs. 25 x 19 cm.
LC Call No.:   QC3 .H8
Notes:         Vol. 2 in 2 parts, separately paged. The works forming
                  the 2d part have half-title only.
               Issued also the same year, with a different
                  arrangement of text, under title: Opera reliqua.
               The 1st edition, 1703, ed. by B. de Volder and B.
                  Fullensis, contains the material included in v. 1
                  and v. 2, pt. 1 of this (1728) edition.
               t. 1. Dioptrica. Commentarii de formandis poliendisque
                  vitris ad telescopia.--t. 2. [pt. 1.] Dissertatio de
                  coronis et parheliis. De motu corporum ex
                  percussione. De vi centrifuga. Descriptio automati
                  planetarii. [pt. 2.] Tractatus de lumine.
                  Dissertatio de causa gravitatis. Geometrica
                  demonstratio theorematum Hugenianorum circa
                  logisticam, seu logarithmicam lineam ... Addita
                  epistola geometrica ad P. Thomam Cevam, S.J. Auctore
                  D. Guidone Grando cremonensi.
Subjects:      Physics -- Early works to 1800.
               Refraction -- Early works to 1800.
Other authors: Grandi, Guido, 1671-1742.
Control No.:   12020409 //r954



Author:        Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Uniform Title: Horologium oscillatorium. German
Title:         Die pendeluhr, Horologium oscillatorium, von
                  Christiaan Huygens; hrsg. von A. Heckscher und A. v.
                  Oettingen, mit einem bildnis und 113 figuren im
                  text.
Published:     Leipzig, W. Engelmann, 1913.
Description:   266, [2] p. front. (port.) illus., diagrs. 19 cm.
Series:        Ostwald's klassiker der exakten wissenschaften, nr.
                  192
LC Call No.:   TS545 .H88
Subjects:      Pendulum.
               Clocks and watches.
Other authors: Heckscher, A.
               Oettingen, A. v. (Arthur), 1836-1920.
Series Entry:  Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften ; -- Bd.
                  192.
Control No.:   13019185 //r83



Author:        Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Uniform Title: Traitbe de la lumiaere. English
Title:         Treatise on light. In which are explained the causes
                  of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction.
                  And particularly in the strange refraction of
                  Iceland crystal. By Christiaan Huygens. Rendered
                  into Englich by Silvanus P. Thompson.
Published:     London, MacMillan and co., limited, 1912.
Description:   xii, 128 [2] p. diagrs. 23 x 19 cm.
LC Call No.:   QC425 .H97
Subjects:      Light, Wave theory of -- Early works to 1800.
               Refraction, Double -- Early works to 1800.
Other authors: Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, tr.
Control No.:   14000572 //r922



Title:         Christiaan Huygens, 1629--14 April--1929, zijn
                  geboortedag, 300 jaar geleden, herdacht.
Published:     Amsterdam, H.J. Paris, 1929.
Description:   4 p.l., 61 p. 8 pl., 4 port. 20 cm.
LC Call No.:   Q143.H96 C5
Notes:         Toespraak van Dr. L. van Itallie.--Toespraak van Mr.
                  C. van Vollenhoven.--Herdenkingsrede van Dr. P.
                  Zeeman.--Discours de M. E. Picard.--Toespraak van
                  Dr. A.F. Holleman.--Inleiding tot het bezoek aan de
                  tentoonstelling der Hugeniana, van Dr. C.A.
                  Crommelin.--De huizen aan het Plein te 's Gravenhage
                  en te Voorburg waarin Christiaan Huygens heeft
                  gewoond, van Dr. Ir. J.H. Plantenga. Catalogus der
                  tentoonstelling door Dr. C.A. Crommelin en Dr. J.A.
                  Vollgraff (In French)
Subjects:      Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Other authors: Crommelin, Claude August, 1878-
               Plantenga, Jan Hendrik, 1891-
               Vollgraf, Johan Adriaan, 1877-
Control No.:   30008018 //r85



Author:        Brugmans, Henri L., 1897-
Title:         Le sbejour de Christian Huygens aa Paris et ses
                  relations avec les milieux scientifiques franpcais;
                  suivi de son Journal de voyage aa Paris et aa
                  Londres.
Published:     Paris, E. Droz, 1935.
Description:   2 p.l., 200 p. front. (port.) plates, facsim. 26 cm.
LC Call No.:   Q143.H96 B7
Notes:         Leaf with "Addenda" and "Errata" tipped in at end.
               "Journal de voyage aa Paris et aa Londres," by
                  Christian Huygens, partly in Dutch: p. [119]-177.
               "Bibliographie": p. [179]-186.
               Label mounted on cover: Ouvrage couronnbe par
                  l'Acadbemie des sciences. Prix Binoux 1935.
Subjects:      Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Other authors: Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Journal de voyage aa
                  Paris et aa Londres. 1935.
Control No.:   ac 36000506 //r85



Author:        Bell, Arthur (Arthur Ernest)
Title:         Christian Huygens and the development of science in
                  the seventeenth century.
Published:     London, E. Arnold [1947]
Description:   220 p. plates, port., diagrs. 23 cm.
LC Call No.:   Q143.H96 B4
Dewey No.:     925
Notes:         "A short bibliography": p. 217-218.
Subjects:      Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
               Science -- History.
Control No.:   48003906 //r85



Author:        Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
Title:         Mathematical principles of natural philosophy.
                  [Translated by Andrew Motte. Rev. by Florian Cajori]
                  Optics. By Sir Isaac Newton. Treatise on light, by
                  Christiaan Huygens. [Translated by Silvanus P.
                  Thompson]
Published:     Chicago, Encyclop5dia Britannica [1955, c1952]
Description:   xi, 619 p. illus. 25 cm.
Series:        Great books of the Western World, v. 34
LC Call No.:   AC1 .G72 vol. 34
Dewey No.:     531
Subjects:      Mechanics -- Early works to 1800.
               Celestial mechanics -- Early works to 1800.
               Optics -- Early works to 1800.
               Light, Wave theory of -- Early works to 1800.
               Refraction, Double -- Early works to 1800.
Other authors: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. Opticks. 1955.
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Traitbe de la
                  lumiaere. 1955.
               Motte, Andrew, d. 1734, tr.
               Cajori, Florian, 1859-1930, ed.
               Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, tr.
Control No.:   55010341 //r933



Author:        Struik, Dirk Jan, 1894-
Title:         Het land van Stevin en Huygens.
Published:     Amsterdam, Pegasus, 1958.
Description:   147 p. illus. 21 cm.
LC Call No.:   Q127.N2 S7
Notes:         Includes bibliography.
Subjects:      Science -- Netherlands -- History.
               Stevin, Simon, -- 1548-1620.
               Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Control No.:   58039322 /L/r84



Author:        Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Title:         [Kosmotheeoros]; sive, De terris coelestibus earumque
                  ornatu conjecturae.
Published:     Hagae-Comitum, Apud A. Moetjens, bibliopolam, 1698.
Description:   144 p. diagrs. 21 cm.
LC Call No.:   QB41 .H8
Subjects:      Plurality of worlds.
Control No.:   61056642 //r83



Author:        Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Uniform Title: Traitbe de la lumiaere. English
Title:         Treatise on light, in which are explained the causes
                  of that which occurs in reflexion & in refraction,
                  and particularly in the strange refraction of
                  Iceland crystal. Rendered into English by Silvanus
                  P. Thompson.
Published:     New York, Dover Publications [1962]
Description:   128 p. illus. 21 cm.
LC Call No.:   QC425 .H97 1962
Dewey No.:     535.12
Subjects:      Light, Wave theory of.
               Refraction, Double.
Control No.:   62053462 /L/r85



Author:        Elzinga, Aant, 1937-
Title:         On a research program in early modern physics with
                  special reference to the work of Ch. Huygens.
Published:     Ghoteborg, Institution for the Theory of Science,
                  University of Gothenburg, 1971.
Description:   1 v. (various pagings) illus. 30 cm.
Series:        Studies in the theory of science
LC Call No.:   Q180.A1 E48
Dewey No.:     507/.2
Notes:         Thesis--Ghoteborg.
               Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted.
               Includes bibliography.
Subjects:      Research -- History.
               Science -- History.
               Science -- Philosophy.
               Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Control No.:   72181999 



Author:        Elzinga, Aant, 1937-
Title:         On a research program in early modern physics.
Published:     New York, Humanities Press [1972]
Description:   143, [1] p. 23 cm.
Series:        Studies in the theory of science
LC Call No.:   Q180.A1 E48 1972
Dewey No.:     507/.2
ISBN:          0391002457
Notes:         A revision of the author's thesis, Ghoteborg, issued
                  under title: On a research program in early modern
                  physics with special reference to the work of Ch.
                  Huygens.
               Bibliography: p. 139-[144]
Subjects:      Research -- History.
               Science -- History.
               Science -- Philosophy.
               Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Control No.:   73155619 



Author:        Elzinga, Aant, 1937-
Title:         On a research program in early modern physics.
Published:     Ghoteborg, Lharomedels-fhorlaget, (Akademiska
                  fhorlaget), 1972.
Description:   143, [1] p. 24 cm.
Series:        Studies in the theory of science ; 4
               Scandinavian university books
LC Call No.:   Q180.A1 E48 1972b
Dewey No.:     507/.2
ISBN:          9124153001
Notes:         A revision of the author's thesis, Ghoteborg, issued
                  under title: On a research program in early modern
                  physics with special reference to the work of Ch.
                  Huygens.
               Bibliography: p. 139-[144]
Subjects:      Research -- History.
               Science -- History.
               Science -- Philosophy.
               Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Control No.:   73179868 //r90



Author:        Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Uniform Title: Kosmotheeoros. English
Title:         The celestial worlds discover'd [by] Christian
                  Huygens; [translated from the Latin by Timothy
                  Childe].
Edition:       1st English ed. new impression.
Published:     London, Cass, 1968.
Description:   [5], vi, 163 p. 3 plates, illus. 23 cm.
Series:        Cass library of science classics ; no. 10
LC Call No.:   QB41 .H85 1698b
Notes:         Facsimile reprint of 1st English ed., London, Timothy
                  Childe, 1698.
               Original t.p. reads: The celestial worlds discover'd:
                  or, conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants
                  and productions of the worlds in the planets.
               Translation of Kosmotheoros sive De terris coelestibus
                  earumque ornatu conjecturae.
Subjects:      Plurality of worlds.
Control No.:   74352551 //r903



Author:        Frankfurt, Usher Iofinovich.
Uniform Title: Khristian Gkilufigens. French
Title:         Christiaan Huygens : [1629-1695] / par U. Frankfourt
                  et A. Frenk ; [traduit du russe par I. Sokolov].
Published:     Moscou : Mir, c1976.
Description:   340 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series:        Science sovibetique
LC Call No.:   Q143.H96 F714
Notes:         Bibliography: p. [335]-340.
Subjects:      Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
               Scientists -- Netherlands -- Biography.
Other authors: Frenk, A. M. (Aleksandr Moiseevich), joint author.
Control No.:   77466396 //r862



Title:         Christiaan Huygens : le temps en question : 350e
                  anniversaire de naissance : Institut nbeerlandais,
                  Paris, 2 mars - 16 septembre 1979, Musbee Boerhaave,
                  Leyde, 14 avril - 16 septembre 1979.
Published:     [Paris : Institut nbeerlandais, 1979]
Description:   31 p. ; 20 x 21 cm.
LC Call No.:   Q143.H96 C48
Dewey No.:     500.2/092/4 19
Notes:         Twelve ill. fasc. in pocket.
Subjects:      Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
               Science -- Exhibitions.
Other authors: Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
Other authors: Institut nbeerlandais (Paris, France)
               Museum Boerhaave.
Control No.:   79128877 //r864



Author:        Struik, Dirk Jan, 1894-
Title:         Het land van Stevin en Huygens / D. J. Struik.
Edition:       3e verbeterde dr.
Published:     Nijmegen : Socialistiese Uitgeverij Nijmegen, 1979.
Description:   156 p. : with ill. ; 22 cm.
Series:        Sunschrift ; 134
LC Call No.:   Q127.N2 S7 1979
ISBN:          9061681340 : fl 18.50
Notes:         Bibliography: p. 139-141.
               Includes index.
Subjects:      Science -- Netherlands -- History.
               Stevin, Simon, -- 1548-1620.
               Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Control No.:   79393879 



Author:        Symposium on the Life and Work of Chri
                  (1979 : Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title:         Studies on Christiaan Huygens : invited papers from
                  the Symposium on the Life and Work of Christiaan
                  Huygens, Amsterdam, 22-25 August 1979 / ed. by
                  H.J.M. Bos, M.J.S. Rudwick, H.A.M. Snelders and
                  R.P.W. Visser.
Published:     Lisse : Swets & Zeitlinger, 1980.
Description:   v, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
LC Call No.:   Q143.H96 S95 1979
Dewey No.:     509/.2/4 B 19
ISBN:          9026503334 : fl 67.60
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects:      Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695 -- Congresses.
               Scientists -- Netherlands -- Biography -- Congresses.
               Science -- History -- Congresses.
Other authors: Bos, H. J. M.
Control No.:   80147693 



Author:        Struik, Dirk Jan, 1894-
Uniform Title: Land van Stevin en Huygens. English
Title:         The land of Stevin and Huygens ; a sketch of science
                  and technology in the Dutch Republic during the
                  Golden Century / Dirk J. Struik.
Published:     Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co. ;
                  Hingham, MA : sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and
                  Canada by Kluwer Boston, c1981.
Description:   xx, 162 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:        Studies in the history of modern science ; v. 7
LC Call No.:   Q127.N2 S713
Dewey No.:     509/.492 19
ISBN:          9027712360
               9027712379 (pbk.)
Notes:         Translation of: Het land van Stevin en Huygens. With
                  corrections and additional material.
               Bibliography: p. 147-151.
               Includes index.
Subjects:      Science -- Netherlands -- History.
               Stevin, Simon, -- 1548-1620.
               Huygens, Christiaan, -- 1629-1695.
Control No.:   81001848 


Name Citations [10 Records]

Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695.
References:    Huyghens, Christian, 1629-1695
               Gkiluens, Khristian, 1629-1695
               Gkilufigens, Khristian, 1629-1695
               Zuylichem, Christian Huygens van, 1629-1695
               Hugenius, Christianus, 1629-1695
               Huygens, Christian, 1629-1695
               Huygens, Christianus, 1629-1695
               Zuilichemius, Christianus Hugenius, 1629-1695
               Hughens, Mr., 1629-1695
               Hugens, Christian, 1629-1695
Notes:         Lustrumboek Christiaan Huygens, c1982: -- t.p.
                  (Christiaan Huygens) p. 3 (Christianus Hugenius)
               LCCN ac36-506: Brugmans, H.L. Le sbejour de Christian
                  Huygens aa Paris, 1935 -- (hdg.: Huygens,
                  Christiaan, 1629-1695)
               His The celestrial worlds discover'd, 1698: -- t.p.
                  (Christianus Huygens)
               LCCN 12-20409: His Christiani Hugenii Zuilichemii, dum
                  viveret Zelhemii toparchae, 1728 -- (hdg.: Huygens,
                  Christiaan, 1629-1695)
               His Nouveau traitbe de la pluralitbe des mondes, 1702:
                  -- t.p. (Mr Hughens)
               His Herrn Christian Hugens u. Cosmotheoros, 1703.



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Horologium
                  oscillatorium
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Christiani Hugenii
                  Zulichemii, Const. f., Horologium oscillatorium
Notes:         His Christiani Hugenii Zulichemii, Const. f.,
                  Horologium oscillatorium ... 1673 -- (Christiani
                  Hugenii Zulichemii, Const. f., Horologium
                  oscillatorium, siue, De motu pendulorum ad horologia
                  aptato demonstrationes geometricae)



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Horologium
                  oscillatorium. German
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Pendeluhr, Horologium
                  oscillatorium
Notes:         LCCN 13-19185: His Die pendeluhr, Horologium
                  oscillatorium, 1913.



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Kosmotheeoros. English
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Celestial worlds
                  discover'd
               nnaa Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Kosmotheoros sive
                  De terris coelestibus earumque ornatu conjecturae
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Cosmotheoros
Notes:         His The celestial worlds discover'd, 1722.
               His Cosmotheoros, 1757.
               LC data base, 4/2/85 -- (hdg.: Huygens, Christiaan,
                  1629-1695. Kosmotheoros sive De terris coelestibus
                  earumque ornatu conjecturae. English)
               Encyc. Brit.; -- Grote Winkler Prins; -- Brockhaus.



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Horologium
                  oscillatorium. English
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Christiaan Huygens'
                  the pendulum clock, or, Geometrical demonstrations
                  concerning the motion of pendula as applied to
                  clocks
Notes:         His Christiaan Huygens' the pendulum clock ... 1986.



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Traitbe de la
                  lumiaere. English
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Treatise on light
Notes:         LCCN 62-53462: His Treatise on light, 1962.



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Kosmotheeoros. German
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Herrn Christian Hugens
                  u. Cosmotheoros, oder, Welt-betrachtende
                  Muthmassungen von denen himmlischen Erd-Kugeln ...
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Cosmotheoros
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Welt-betrachtende
                  Muthmassungen von denen himmlischen Erd-Kugeln ...
Notes:         His Herrn Christian Hugens u. Cosmotheoros, oder,
                  Welt-betrachtende Muthmassungen von denen
                  himmlischen Erd-Kugeln ... 1703.



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Kosmotheeoros
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Christiani Hugenii
                  Kosmotheeoros, sive, De terris coelestibus, earumque
                  ornatu, conjecturae
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. De terris coelestibus,
                  earumque ornatur, conjecturae
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Cosmotheoros
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Wereldbeschouwer
Notes:         His Christiani Hugenii [Kosmotheeoros], sive, De
                  terris coelestibus, earumque ornatu, conjecturae,
                  1699.
               His Cosmotheoros, 1989: -- prelim. p. 7
                  (Wereldbeschouwer)



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Kosmotheeoros. French
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Nouveau traitbe de la
                  pluralitbe des mondes
Notes:         His Nouveau traitbe de la pluralitbe des mondes, 1702.



Heading:       Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Lettre touchant le
                  cycle harmonique. Polyglot
References:    Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Novus cyclus
                  harmonicus
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Cycle harmonique
               Huygens, Christiaan, 1629-1695. Brief betreffende de
                  harmonische cyclus
Notes:         His Le cycle harmonique, 1986.

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