Huygens and Hofwijck : the inventive world of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens / Kees van der Leer en Henk Boers ; [translation into English Jane E. Choy-Thurlow].
| Author/creator |
Leer, Kees van der author. |
| Other author/creator | Boers, Henk, author. |
| Other author/creator | Choy-Thurlow, Jane E., translator. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, 2022. |
| Copyright Notice | 2022 |
| Description | 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, genealogical tables ; 29 cm |
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| Uniform title | Huygens' Hofwijck. English |
| Abstract | Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to three princes of Orange for 62 years. Hofwijck was also the place where Constantijn's son Christiaan spent a significant part of his life. Christiaan Huygens was a member of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge and became one of the greatest inventors and scientists. At the end of his life, at Hofwijck, he wrote 'Cosmotheoros', his magnum opus on the universe. At Huygens's Hofwijck we look at the seventeenth century through the eyes of these two versatile men. With Constantijn and Christiaan, the story is about literature, art, music, politics, the House of Orange, science and life at a seventeenth-century country estate. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Translated from the Dutch. |
| ISBN | 9789463722292 |
| ISBN | 9463722297 (hardcover) |
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