Anniversary of the birth of Christiaan Huygens

On 14 April 1629, 375 years ago, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens was born.

ESA’s probe on board the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission to the Saturnian system is named after him, the lens-maker who discovered Titan in 1655.

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