- also /ˈhɔɪɡənz/ HOY-gənz; Dutch: [ˈkrɪstijaːn ˈɦœyɣə(n)s] ; also
spelled Huyghens; Latin: Hugenius; 14
April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a
Dutch mathematician...
- D. Frei João
Vicente da Fonseca, the
younger Huyghen was
appointed Secretary to the Archbishop.
Huyghen sailed for Goa on 8
April 1583,
arriving five...
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hashish was
consumed as an
edible in the
Muslim world. In 1596,
Dutchman Jan
Huyghen van
Linschoten spent three pages on "Bangue" (bhang) in his
historic work...
-
Market of Goa is
Plate 5 in Jan
Huyghen van Linschoten's Itinerario. The
plate depicts the
market in Goa, a
region on the
southwestern coast of India...
- the same as the
European hemp
plant (alcanave). In 1596, a Dutchman, Jan
Huyghen van Linschoten,
wrote three pages on "Bangue" in a work do****enting his...
- The Huygens–Fresnel
principle (named
after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and
French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel)
states that
every point on a...
- in him by the Viceroy, Jan
Huyghens meticulously copied the top-secret
charts page-by-page. Even more crucially, Jan
Huyghens provided nautical data like...
- as he
could about the ****e Islands. In 1595,
merchant and
explorer Jan
Huyghen van Linschoten,
having traveled widely in the
Indian Ocean in the service...
-
Kunstsammlungen Dresden The
Blinding of
Samson (1636),
which Rembrandt gave to
Huyghens Susanna (1636) Belsh****ar's
Feast (c. 1636–38) Danaë (c. 1636–43), Hermitage...
-
engraved "Magadoxo", a name
which later, by
corruption became Madagascar. Jan
Huyghen van Linschoten, a
Dutch traveler who
copied Portuguese works and maps,...
