TY - BOOK AU - Leer,Kees AU - Boers,Henk TI - Huygens and Hofwijck: The Inventive World of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens SN - 9789048557325 AV - PT5664.Z5 L4413 2022eb U1 - 839/.3112 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Country homes in literature KW - Country homes KW - Netherlands KW - Voorburg KW - Historic buildings KW - Art and Material Culture KW - Early Modern Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - Landscape architecture and design KW - Science and Technology KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical KW - bisacsh KW - estate history, garden history, seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens, scientist N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Ithaka Prize --; Constantijn Huygens in The Hague: a courtier in the capital --; Constantijn Huygens and Hofwijck: a courtier as a landscape architect --; Christiaan Huygens: an inventive scientist at Hofwijck --; Hofwijck’s heirs: care and neglect --; Hofwijck in alien hands: division and impending demolition --; Hofwijck in safe hands: a narrow escape --; The restoration of house and garden from 1914 onwards: a long way up --; The restored garden around 2005: a successful reconstruction --; Map of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century --; Genealogical table --; Literature --; Notes --; Origin of images --; Index of personal names --; The authors --; Colophon; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048557325?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048557325 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048557325/original ER -