Dutch Light – Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

Author Hugh Aldersey-Williams OC in conversation with David Smith on the subject of his recently published book on the seventeenth century Dutch scientist who was, perhaps unfairly, eclipsed by Isaac Newton.  In a review, Dr Patricia Fara, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, wrote: ‘At last – a scintillating biography of Christiaan Huygens …  Hugh Aldersey-Williams has evocatively illuminated this brilliant polymath who laid the foundations of modern European science.’  This is a virtual ‘Night at the Museum’ event organised by the Museum and Archive at Highgate School.

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