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![Springer Nature on Twitter: "Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, died #OnThisDay in 1695. He founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and Springer Nature on Twitter: "Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, died #OnThisDay in 1695. He founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcZGkdjWoAA16Z_.jpg)
Springer Nature on Twitter: "Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, died #OnThisDay in 1695. He founded the wave theory of light, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, and
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