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* Christiaan de Wet ( 1854 – 1922 ), Boer general, rebel leader and politician
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In 1673, Christiaan Huygens published his theory of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum.
In his 1678 Traité de la Lumiere, Christiaan Huygens showed how Snell's law of sines could be explained by, or derived from, the wave nature of light, using what we have come to call the Huygens – Fresnel principle.
The old Raadsaal in Bloemfontein, with the statue of Christiaan de Wet
At the conclusion of the show, the Boer General Christiaan de Wet would escape on horseback by leaping from a height of into a pool of water.
Although mathematics was not part of his course work, de Moivre read several mathematical works on his own including Elements de mathematiques by Father Prestet and a short treatise on games of chance, De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae, by Christiaan Huygens.
Van Schooten's father was a professor of mathematics at Leiden, having Christiaan Huygens, Johann van Waveren Hudde, and René de Sluze as students.
On the Boer side, the government was led by state president Martinus Theunis Steyn ( 1857 – 1916 ) until 30 May 1902, when he went on sick-leave and was replaced by general Christiaan de Wet as acting state president.
Horologium was created in the 18th century by Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who originally named it Horologium Oscillitorium after the pendulum clock to honour its inventor, Christiaan Huygens.
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With 9th Brigade and the Imperial Yeomanry, Methuen ’ s Column took part in the operations of June 1900 to trap the elusive Boer leader Christiaan de Wet.
* Christiaan Huygens publishes his Traité de la Lumière / Treatise on Light, which states his principle of wavefront sources.
* Christiaan Huygens publishes his mathematical analysis of the pendulum, Horologium Oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum.
In Mechelen she won her first follower, Christiaan de Cort.
The notions of the involute and evolute of a curve were introduced by Christiaan Huygens in his work titled Horologium oscillatorium sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae ( 1673 ).
* Reinier de Graaf, Christiaan Huygens, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Willem Ten Rhijne, Benedictus Spinoza, Peter Serrarius
The farm house was converted into a hospital and the mountain pass, bearing the same name of the farm, was guarded in an effort to block the path for the famous Boer general, Christiaan de Wet.
The town was set up, without approval of the Volksraad, by field-cornet Jacobus de Wet, father of the Boer War general Christiaan de Wet.
This was due to there being Bee infestations in the nearby rocky hills, during the building of the railway line in 1904 by General Christiaan de Wet and Dirk Cornelis Lourens, who lived there.
Troops led by General Christiaan de Wet attacked a convoy of 600 of the Royal Irish Rifles on April 4, 1900, and obtained their surrender the next day.
In the fifty years after establishment the Dutch Reformed Church was prominent there and one of the dominees who served there was the famous Rev Andrew Murray. The famous Second Boer War General Christiaan de Wet was born on the nearby farm Leeukop in 1854.
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The first engagement of this new form of warfare was at Sanna's Post on 31 March where 1, 500 Boers under the command of Christiaan De Wet attacked Bloemfontein's waterworks about east of the city, and ambushed a heavily escorted convoy, which caused 155 British casualties and the capture of seven guns, 117 wagons, and 428 British troops.
The hard core of the Free State Boers under Christiaan De Wet, accompanied by President Steyn, left the basin early.
From the Basin, Christiaan De Wet headed west.
The battle took place on December 25, 1901 when General Christiaan De Wet destroyed a British column.
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* 1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician ( d. 1695 )
* 1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1930 )
Christiaan Neethling Barnard ( 8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001 ) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).
* Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695 ( Netherlands )
The Huygens – Fresnel principle ( named after Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens and French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel ) is a method of analysis applied to problems of wave propagation both in the far-field limit and in near-field diffraction.
* 1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
* 1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1858 )
* 1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon ( d. 2001 )
File: Christiaan Huygens-painting. jpeg | Christiaan Huygens ( 1629-1695 ): studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its moon Titan, invented the pendulum clock, studied optics and centrifugal force, theorized that light consists of waves ( Huygens – Fresnel principle ) which became instrumental in the understanding of wave-particle duality.
* September 2 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon ( b. 1922 )
* Physiology or Medicine – Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
* December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
* November 8 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon ( d. 2001 )
* July 8 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician and physicist who developed the wave theory of light ( b. 1629 )
* November 5 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1858 )
* August 11 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1930 )
* April 14 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist ( d. 1695 )
* December – The pendulum clock is invented by Christiaan Huygens.
Christiaan Huygens, FRS ( or ; ; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695 ) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist.
Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, ( 1596 – 1687 ), friend of mathematician, philosopher and minor physicist René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle ( deceased 1637 ), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627.
For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).
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