Œuvres complètes de Christiaan Huygens

THE appearance of the seventeenth volume of the works of Huygens marks another welcome stage towards the completion of a monumental task. Editors and printers alike have continued to spare no pains to make this publication a memorial worthy of the great Dutch physicist. A French translation is set alongside the Latin or Dutch original, and the text is accompanied by introductions and a full apparatus of historical notes. These are the more valuable because Huygens is not merely a great figure in himself, but also because, maintaining contacts with the contemporary world of science, he stands as the great link between the age of Galileo and Descartes and that of Newton. For this reason, the present edition of his works, when complete, will provide indispensable material for the history of a most important period in the development of physics, apart from the light thrown on the achievement of one outstanding man.œuvres complètes de Christiaan Huygens. Publiées par la Société Hollandaise des Sciences. Tome 17: L'Horloge à pendule de 1651 à 1666; Travaux divers de physique, de mécanique et de technique de 1650 à 1666; Traité des couronnes et des parhélies (1662 ou 1663). Pp. iv + 551 + 7 plates. (La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff 1932.)