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Horologium Oscillatorium

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  • Christiaan Huygens
    In Christiaan Huygens

    …publication in 1673 of his Horologium Oscillatorium. That brilliant work contained a theory on the mathematics of curvatures, as well as complete solutions to such problems of dynamics as the derivation of the formula for the time of oscillation of the simple pendulum, the oscillation of a body about a…

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