Huygens’s Odd Sympathy Recreated Kurt Wiesenfeld Abstract. In 2000, a Georgia Tech research team decided to recreate experiments described by Christiaan Huygens concerning his newly invented pendulum clock. Dormant for 335 years, and resurrected as a historical curiosity, Huygens’s system informs and inspires current research in nonlinear science. Keywords: Christiaan Huygens, pendulum clocks, synchronization, experiments, […]
Category: Vol. 11 no. 2
Introduction. Galileo, Huygens and the Pendulum Clock: Isochronism and Synchronicity
Introduction. Galileo, Huygens and the Pendulum Clock: Isochronism and Synchronicity Invited editor: Filip Buyse On the 2nd October 2017, the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three researchers who were able to elucidate how the internal, biological clock of living organisms adapts itself so that it is synchronized with the Earth’s […]