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Huygens and Hofwijck : The Inventive World of Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens / Henk Boers, Kees Leer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048557325
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 839/.3112 23
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  • PT5664.Z5 L4413 2022eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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