Life
Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, (1596–1687), friend of mathematician, philosopher and minor physicist René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle (deceased 1637), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627. Christiaan studied law and mathematics at the University of Leiden and the College of Orange in Breda. After a stint as a diplomat, Huygens turned to science.
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