Huygens’ Traité de la lumière and Newton’s opticks: pursuing and eschewing hypotheses
@article{Shapiro1989HuygensTD, title={Huygens’ Trait{\'e} de la lumi{\`e}re and Newton’s opticks: pursuing and eschewing hypotheses}, author={A. Eugene Shapiro}, journal={Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London}, year={1989}, volume={43}, pages={223 - 247} }
Writing in December 1688 to his brother Constantyn, who had only recently arrived in England with the court of William III, Christiaan Huygens expressed a wish to be in England, ‘ only to make the acquaintance of Mr. Newton whom I exceedingly admire for the beautiful inventions that I found in the work [the Principia] that he sent m e’ (1). Less than six months later, on 12 June 1689,.the two met in London for the first time at a meeting of the Royal Society which has by now passed into legend…
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