Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe - Paperback

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Author)

Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.

Author Biography

Hugh Aldersey-Williams studied natural sciences at Cambridge. He is the author of Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements from Arsenic to Zinc, Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body, and Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth