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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
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Huygens, Christiaan
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1656: Christiaan Huygens of Amsterdam patented...
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1656
Christiaan Huygens
of
Amsterdam
patented the first pendulum clock (of which
Galileo
had produced a prototype fifteen years earlier).
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Sobel, Dava.
Galileo’s Daughter
. Viking, 1999.
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