Those photons have been streaming to our humble blue planet ever since. A few fell on the eyes of great thinkers -- Newton, Huygens, Einstein -- and caused them to stop, to think and to imagine. Keep reading for more links to satisfy your curious mind. ...
Other solar system probes: There have been many, but examples include the Magellan mission to Venus, numerous Mars spacecraft such as the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Galileo (with ESA) and Juno (independently) missions to Jupiter, the Cassini-Huygens mission (with ESA) to Saturn, the New Hori...
(the Galilean satellites being discovered in 1610). Planetary exploration was carriedout and advanced by the observations of Cassini and Huygens, in particular, andby the construction of major observatories. A century later (1781) with Herschel,the arrival of large telescopes brought the discovery ...
ofgeneralized synchrony(Huygens,1673)—of the same kind that occurs between two coupled pendulums.Footnote9Despite the fact that one can formally describe each pendulum as a model of the other, actively inferring the other’s behaviour, the question for the enactive-ecological views remains whethe...
Arbuthnot, a younger contemporary and follower of Newton, may have been one of the first authors to explicitly address the role of randomness in the deterministic setting of Newtonian physics. In the Preface to his translation of Huygens’s path-breaking bookDe Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleaeon probab...