Christiaan Huygens – A family affair - Proeven van Vroeger

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Therefore it would be sensible for Christiaan Jr. to dedicate the following treatise on the pendulum clock to the King. 420 iii. Success – Founding member of the Académie Royale des Sciences Not much later Christiaan was asked to become a founding member of the Académie, after first receiving another “present” of 500 escus, awarded by the King. 421 With the membership of the Académie and an income of 6000 livres, Christiaan Jr.’s patronage by the King became a fact. This laudable event was reason for Constantijn Sr. to send Colbert a letter to thank him for his “protection” of his son, stating that the “clemence” of the King and Colbert outweighed the efforts he had done as a father to care for his son’s interests. 422 In the following years, Constantijn Sr. would repeatedly assure his and his son’s gratitude for the King’s and Colbert’s patronage and favors. 423 Christiaan Huygens Jr.’s membership of the Académie des Sciences came at the end of a process of obtaining the influential patronage of the French King, Louis XIV and his first minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Christiaan Jr.’s membership has often been taken as a singular point of attention, appearing almost out of the blue, while in fact this neglects an important socio-political process preceding this great honor for Christiaan. I think it is for this reason that there has been paid hardly any attention to Constantijn Sr.’s role in these mechanics of patronage. Though it remains hard to determine the exact influence that Constantijn Sr. exerted on Christiaan Jr.’s position at the French Court and within the Académie, his role in obtaining the privilege for the pendulum clock with the French King and his letters to Colbert concerning his son seem to be important indicators that his influence was substantial. They seem to betray a much greater significance for Constantijn Sr.’s activities at Versailles for the history of science than has been supposed previously. The audiences for diplomacy and the natural sciences often largely overlapped at the greater courts, bringing the “fields of 420 Ibid., Vol. V, No. 1349 (Mar. 10, 1665) 421 Ibid., Vol. V, No. 1464 (Sept. 17, 1665): Christiaan Jr. wrote a thank you note to Louis XIV and indicated that he awaited the King’s orders on when and how to come to Paris. Christiaan also sent a thank you note to minister Colbert: Vol. V, No. 1463 (Sept. 17, 1665) 422 HUYGENS, C. (1911) BW., Vol. 6, No. 6543 (Apr. 8, 1666). Also published in: Vol. VI, p22 423 Ibid., Vol. 6, No. 6596 – Constantijn Sr. to Colbert (Jan. 6, 1667). Also published in: Vol. VI, p97. The following year: HUYGENS, C. (1911) BW., Vol. 6, No. 6685 – Constantijn Sr. to Colbert (Dec. 20, 1668). Also published in: HUYGENS, C. (1888) OC., Vol. VI, p303 118
operation” of Constantijn Sr. and Christiaan Jr. very close together. For this reason, Constantijn Sr., while residing in Paris for diplomatic negotiations, could be of tremendous help for his son’s career in the natural sciences. 119
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present-day patent (the monopoly on
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Court, Constantijn Sr. requested th
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court, diplomacy and natural philos
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II. A “Grand Tour” de Force in
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opportunity to see the world, learn
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A same strategic use of his musical
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Constantijn’s objective - putting
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authorities out- and inside the Rep
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Barendrecht argues, the foreign min
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Constantijn Sr. may have encountere
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patronage of different ambassadors
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could be employed in that context v
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involved social and material benefi
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Council of States (Raad van State)
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From Huygens’s defense it shows t
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“honesty”), thus inviting the r
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this constituted but a relative sma
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1627 to approximately f 300.000 in
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Orange - which itself in turn showe
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correspondence with and poems for h
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advice to the Stadholder. 139 This
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Post) by its natural inclusion in t
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Amongst the highest of the bourgeoi
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In many ways, Constantijn Sr. was p
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and England refused the diplomatic
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knowledge of the natural sciences.
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Constantijn Sr. used in his writing
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make “dry” matter more interest
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emphasized by Erasmus and Castiglio
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the seemingly dominant position for
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prominent role in the rest of their
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Page 131 and 132: BRUGMANS, H. L. & HUYGENS, C. (1935
Page 133 and 134: KAISER, F. (1846) Iets over de kijk
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