Invitation to Night of Freethinkers on 20 and 21 November!
Short Christiaan Huygens films from diorama (c) Hidden City Foundation
Frans Maes video lecture Sundials 11 July
News release dated 10 July 2024 (new!)
News release dated 31 May 2024
16 April at Venduehuis, busy birthday Christiaan Huygens!
A Venduehuis filled with about 80 interested people!
Prior to the afternoon, Mr Kees van der Leer conducted a short walk for a select group along houses where the Huygens family lived. Following the introduction by chairman Joost Albers and an update "Huygens' Time Machine" by Theo Pronk, director of the Hidden City Foundation the lecture "Huygens, Saturn, and a career in 17th-century science" by Prof Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
At the association Histechnica (KIVI History of Technology) on 11 May also a lecture by Prof F. J. Dijksterhuis "The Ingenious Thinking of Christiaan Huygens"
New, the book "Walking with Christiaan Huygens" by Tijmen Jan Moser!
"Walking with Christiaan Huygens" by Tijmen Jan Moser and Enders Anthony Robinson (Springer 2024 edition, order via Springer website )
From Archimedes' Influence to Unsung Contributions in Modern Science
- Puts the contributions of Huygens to modern science in an up-to-date context
- Addresses the mystery why Huygens did not consider diffraction, although he had the unique tools to study it
- Highlights the importance of Huygens' principle for wave propagation in all branches
News release dated 21 February 2024
All newsletters 2023
Important step Stichting Verborgen Stad
Huygens Time Machine launch
On 7 December was the launch of the Huygens' Tijdmachine, an important step in the realisation of this unique project.
After opening by Joost Albers (chair of the Haegsche Tijd Foundation), there were lectures by Serge ter Braak on the 17e century Binnenhof and from Theo Pronk on the making process digital reconstructions
There was a great article on this by Marieke van Essen in The Telegraph of 8 January 2024. (c) 2024 De Telegraaf. Click to read this!
Lustrum 28 September speech and lecture Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera Mechanism
Lustrum meeting of Haegsche Tijd Foundation
at Venduehuis in The Hague
Presentation chairman Joost Alberts, followed
by lecture of Prof. Dr. Rien van de Weijgaert
On the Antikythera mechanism
Status 2025 exhibition Christiaan Huygens in collaboration with MIH
Fascinating lecture at lustrum meeting on Antikythera mechanism (September 28)!
The Antikythera Mechanism
A fascinating lecture by Prof Dr M.A.M. van de Weijgaert
At the Lustrum meeting of Haegsche Tijd Foundation
on 28 September at Venduehuis in The Hague
(See below explanation Dirk van Swinderen on Antikythera mechanism)
Engaging excursion Flexous on June 22 !
Flexous Mechanisms
Words of thanks from Joost Albers to CEO Nima Tolou and
Head of Production Aleksandar Jovic
Press release and report lectures 14 April
Christiaan van der Klaauw 16 March 2023
All messages from 2022
Excursion to Switzerland Report of trip 2022
New article on Christiaan Huygens
Audio file and images accompanying Prof Dr Vincent Icke's lecture on Thursday 14 April 2022
Fresh from the printer, the book "Considering Time" by Adri de Keijzer!
FOLLOWING THE TIME - Growth in knowledge and skills
The book outlines in 12 chapters the developmental progression from sundials, through mechanical clocks to increasingly accurate atomic clocks. It is a great source of information for anyone interested in the subject of TIME in all its aspects. With a host of photos and illustrations, the book is an instructive and wonderful reference work.
Huygens' Time Machine project plan - May 2023
Reading rehearsal percussion mechanisms 9 February
New book Gaemers, available to order now!
Presentation of first Gaemers Book on 29 September at Venduehuis very busy!
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