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Christiaan Huygens (4671 bytes)
1: [[Image:Huygens.jpg|thumb|right|Christiaan Huygens]]
3: ...stantijn Huygens]]. Historians commonly associate Huygens with the [[scientific revolution]].
5: ...ior of the Orion Nebula bears the name of the ''[[Huygens Region]]'' in his honour.) He also discovered sev...
7: After [[Blaise Pascal]] encouraged him to do so, Huygens wrote the first book on [[probability theory]], w...
11: ...ns a member of in [[1663]]. In the year [[1666]] Huygens moved to [[Paris, France|Paris]] where he held a ...

Christiaan Barnard (3600 bytes)
1: '''Christiaan Neethling Barnard''' (''sometimes incorrectly wri...
27: [[Category:1922 births|Barnard, Christiaan]]
28: [[Category:2001 deaths|Barnard, Christiaan]]
29: [[Category:South African people|Barnard, Christiaan]]
33: [[de:Christiaan Barnard]]

Christiaan Eijkman (786 bytes)
1: '''Christiaan Eijkman''' ([[August 11]], [[1858]]—[[Novem...
4: *[http://crishunt.8bit.co.uk/christiaan_eijkman.html Biography]
5: [[Category:1858 births|Eijkman, Christiaan]]
6: [[Category:1930 deaths|Eijkman, Christiaan]]
7: ... Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners|Eijkman, Christiaan]]

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (241 bytes)
1: '''Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje''' (1857-1936). Famous Dutch Ori...
3: [[Category:Orientalists|Snouck Hurgronje, Christiaan]]

Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé (4241 bytes)
1: '''Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé''' (more commonly known as...
23: [[category:1914 births|Naudé, Christiaan Frederick Beyers]]
24: [[category:2004 deaths|Naudé, Christiaan Frederick Beyers]]
25: [[category:South African people|Naudé, Christiaan Frederick Beyers]]
28: [[de:Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naudé]]

Huygens (575 bytes)
1: ...ronomer]] [[1629]] - [[1695]], son of Constantijn Huygens
2: ...poser]] [[1596]] - [[1687]], father of Christiaan Huygens
3: * [[Cassini-Huygens]], mission to Saturn and Titan
4: * [[Huygens probe]] is the portion of the Cassini-Huygens mission which landed on Saturn's moon Titan on Ja...
5: * [[2801 Huygens]], an [[asteroid]] named after the astronomer

Cassini-Huygens (31105 bytes)
2: ...]], named after the Dutch astronomer [[Christiaan Huygens]]. It was launched on [[October 15]], [[1997]] a...
5: [[Image:Cassini-Huygens launch.jpg|thumb|200px|Launch occurred at 4:43 a....
16: The ''Cassini-Huygens'' spacecraft was launched on [[October 15]], [[19...
18: ...|CalTech]]'s [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]]. The ''Huygens'' probe was built by the [[European Space Agency]...
20: The total cost of the Cassini-Huygens mission is about [[United States dollar|US$]]3.26...

Huygens probe (21591 bytes)
1: ...thumb|right|250px|An artist's impression of the ''Huygens'' probe as it descends through Titan's murky, bro...
3: ...hed from [[Earth]] on [[October 15]], [[1997]]. ''Huygens'' separated from the ''Cassini'' orbiter on [[Dec...
7: ''Huygens'' was designed to enter and brake in Titan's atmo...
9: [[image:050114huygens1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The first image released, ...
11: ...suming the landing site could be non-solid, the ''Huygens'' probe was designed to survive the impact and sp...

Constantijn Huygens (852 bytes)
1: ...] and [[composer]] and the father of [[Christiaan Huygens]].
3: ...astle of [[Muiden]] near [[Amsterdam]]. However, Huygens probably only visited on occasion.
8: ...www.etcl.nl/goldenage/huygens.stm The Constantijn Huygens Web] - collection of poems
10: [[Category:Dutch writers|Huygens, Constantijn]]
11: [[Category:Dutch poets|Huygens, Constantijn]]

Huygens' principle (1367 bytes)
1: ...le''' (named for Dutch [[physicist]] [[Christiaan Huygens]]) is a method of analysis applied to problems of...
12: [[de:Huygenssches Prinzip]]
13: [[es:Principio de Huygens]]
14: [[fr:Principe de Huygens]]

2801 Huygens (309 bytes)
1: ...ent]] in [[1935]]. It is named after [[Christiaan Huygens]], the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[astronomer]], [[ma...
5: [[Category:Main Belt asteroids|Huygens]]

Cassini-Huygens timeline (41427 bytes)
1: ...red or are expected to occur during the [[Cassini-Huygens]] mission to [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] and [[Tit...
79: ...[[September 14]]''' — Final checkout of the Huygens lander was completed successfully. The separation...
84: ...3]]''' — The last in-flight checkout of the Huygens probe before separation was completed successfull...
88: '''[[December 25]]''' — Huygens probe separated from Cassini orbiter at 02:00 UTC...
89: [[Image:Huygens probe away.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Huygens is released on its way to Titan.]]

Cassini-Huygens abbreviations (3875 bytes)
1: ...s commonly used in conjunction with the [[Cassini-Huygens]] mission to [[Saturn]] and [[Titan (moon)|Titan]...
4: *'''ACP''': Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyzer (Huygens instrument)
18: ...'DISR''': Descent Imager and Spectral Radiometer (Huygens instrument)
22: *'''DWE''': Doppler Wind Experiment (Huygens instrument)
28: ...''GCMS''': Gas Chromatograph & Mass Spectrometer (Huygens instrument)

Tautochrone curve (747 bytes)
3: ...fy this curve, was solved by [[Christiaan Huygens|Huygens]] in [[1659]]. He proved geometrically in his ''...

Bernard Frénicle de Bessy (651 bytes)
3: He challenged [[Christiaan Huygens|Huygens]] to solve the following system of equations in i...

1678 in science (883 bytes)
9: ...a Lumière/Treatise on Light'', which states his [[Huygens' principle|principle]] of wavefront sources

1695 in science (412 bytes)
9: * [[July 8]] - [[Christiaan Huygens]], Dutch mathematician and physicist (born [[1629...

1629 in science (413 bytes)
6: * [[April 14]] - [[Christiaan Huygens]], Dutch mathematician and physicist (died [[1695...

Jean-Pierre Lebreton (490 bytes)
1: ...science, particularly plasma physics. Besides the Huygens mission, he is also working with the [[Rosetta sp...

Xanadu Regio (1878 bytes)
3: ... it is hoped that analysis of data from [[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] will help to answer these questions.
5: Recent images by [[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]] during encounters in October and Decemb...
8: ...nd Huygens landing site visible] from the Cassini-Huygens mission homepage
9: ...ini to Send Huygens Probe Down to Moon Titan] (on Huygens' descent and landing near Xanadu)

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