Invented pendulum clock in 1657

An exceptionally talented mathematician and physicist, Huygens was the first to idealize a physical problem by a set of parameters then analyze it mathematicallySaving... (Horologium Oscillatorium), and the first to fully mathematize a mechanistic explanation of unobservable physical phenomena (Traité de la Lumière). For these reasons, he has been called the first theoretical physicist and one of the founders of modern mathematical physics.

Further Reading

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens

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